CONTENTS
2Phoneme, allophone and syllable
3Connected speech and phonemic transcription
1Phoneme and syllable revisited
1Accent variation – General American
2Accents of the British Isles 1: England
3Accents of the British Isles 2: Celtic-influenced varieties
5Pronunciation change: past, present, future
6Teaching and learning a foreign language
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)
The International Phonetic Alphabet
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