English Phonetics and Phonology An Introduction.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carr, Philip
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2012.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • English Phonetics and Phonology: An Introduction
  • Contents
  • List of Sound Recordings
  • Prefaces to the First Edition
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figure 1 The organs of speech
  • Figure 2 The International Phonetic Alphabet
  • 1 English Phonetics: Consonants (i)
  • 1.1 Airstream and Articulation
  • 1.2 Place of Articulation
  • 1.3 Manner of Articulation: Stops, Fricatives and Approximants
  • Exercises
  • 2 English Phonetics: Consonants (ii)
  • 2.1 Central vs Lateral
  • 2.2 Taps and Trills
  • 2.3 Secondary Articulation
  • 2.4 Affricates
  • 2.5 Aspiration
  • 2.6 Nasal Stops
  • Exercises
  • 3 English Phonetics: Vowels (i)
  • 3.1 The Primary Cardinal Vowels
  • 3.2 RP and GA Short Vowels
  • Exercises
  • 4 English Phonetics: Vowels (ii)
  • 4.1 RP and GA Long Vowels
  • 4.2 RP and GA Diphthongs
  • Exercises
  • 5 The Phonemic Principle
  • 5.1 Introduction: Linguistic Knowledge
  • 5.2 Contrast vs Predictability: The Phoneme
  • 5.3 Phonemes, Allophones and Contexts
  • 5.4 Summing Up
  • Exercises
  • 6 English Phonemes
  • 6.1 English Consonant Phonemes
  • 6.2 The Phonological Form of Morphemes
  • 6.3 English Vowel Phonemes
  • Exercises
  • 7 English Syllable Structure
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Constituency in Syllable Structure
  • 7.3 The Sonority Hierarchy, Maximal Onset and Syllable Weight
  • 7.4 Language-Specific Phonotactics
  • 7.5 Syllabic Consonants and Phonotactics
  • 7.6 Syllable-Based Generalizations
  • 7.7 Morphological Structure, Syllable Structure and Resyllabification
  • 7.8 Summing Up
  • Exercises
  • 8 Rhythm and Word Stress in English
  • 8.1 The Rhythm of English
  • 8.2 English Word Stress: Is It Entirely Random?
  • 8.3 English Word Stress: Some General Principles
  • 8.4 Word Stress Assignment in Morphologically Simple Words
  • 8.5 Word Stress Assignment and Morphological Structure
  • 8.6 Compound Words
  • 8.7 Summing Up
  • Exercises
  • 9 Rhythm, Reversal and Reduction
  • 9.1 More on the Trochaic Metrical Foot
  • 9.2 Representing Metrical Structure
  • 9.3 Phonological Generalizations and Foot Structure
  • 9.4 The Rhythm of English Again: Stress Timing and Eurhythmy
  • Exercises
  • 10 English Intonation
  • 10.1 Tonic Syllables, Tones and Intonation Phrases
  • 10.2 Departures from the LLI Rule
  • 10.3 IPs and Syntactic Units
  • 10.4 Tonic Placement, IP Boundaries and Syntax
  • 10.5 Tones and Syntax
  • 10.6 Tonic Placement and Discourse Context
  • 10.7 Summing Up
  • Exercises
  • 11 Graphophonemics: Spelling-Pronunciation Relations
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 Vowel Graphemes and Their Phonemic Values
  • 11.3 Consonant Graphemes and Their Phonemic Values
  • Exercises
  • 12 Variation in English Accents
  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.2 Systemic vs Realizational Differences between Accents
  • 12.3 Perceptual and Articulatory Space
  • 12.4 Differences in the Lexical Distribution of Phonemes
  • Exercises