CONTENTS

List of figures

List of tables

Prefaces and acknowledgements

List of phonetic symbols

AIntroduction

1English worldwide

2Phoneme, allophone and syllable

3Connected speech and phonemic transcription

4How we produce speech

5Consonant possibilities

6Vowel possibilities

BDevelopment

1Phoneme and syllable revisited

2English consonants

3English vowels

4English spelling

5Features of connected speech

6Stress and rhythm

7Speech melody

CExploration

1Accent variation – General American

2Accents of the British Isles 1: England

3Accents of the British Isles 2: Celtic-influenced varieties

4World accent varieties

5Pronunciation change: past, present, future

6Teaching and learning a foreign language

DExtension

1RP – R.I.P.? (David Abercrombie)

2Attitudes to accents (Daniel Jones)

3Pronunciation worries (David Crystal)

4Teaching the pronunciation of a second language (Peter Avery and Susan Ehrlich)

5Phonetics applied to teaching the deaf (Dennis Fry)

6Making computers talk (Peter Ladefoged)

7Using phonetics in criminal investigations (Maurice Varney)

8The rise of ‘upspeak’ (Barbara Bradford)

9English accents and their implications for spelling reform (J. C. Wells)

10The sociolinguistics of modern RP (Peter Trudgill)

Glossary

Further reading

References

Index

The International Phonetic Alphabet

 

Please email AcademiceBooksSupport@informa.com with proof of purchase to obtain access to the supplementary content for this eBook. An access code and instructions will be provided.