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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Prefaces and acknowledgements
List of phonetic symbols
A: Introduction
1. English worldwide
2. Phoneme, allophone and syllable
3. Connected speech and phonemic transcription
4. How we produce speech
5. Consonant possibilities
6. Vowel possibilities
B: Development
1. Phoneme and syllable revisited
2. English consonants
3. English vowels
4. English spelling
5. Features of connected speech
6. Stress and rhythm
7. Speech melody
C: Exploration
1. Accent variation – General American
2. Accents of the British Isles 1: England
3. Accents of the British Isles 2: Celtic-influenced varieties
4. World accent varieties
5. Pronunciation change: past, present, future
6. Teaching and learning a foreign language
D: Extension
1. RP – R.I.P.?
2. Attitudes to accents
3. Pronunciation worries
4. Teaching the pronunciation of a second language
5. Phonetics applied to teaching the deaf
6. Making computers talk
7. Using phonetics in criminal investigations
8. The rise of ‘upspeak’
9. English accents and their implications for spelling reform
10. The sociolinguistics of modern RP
Glossary
Further reading
References
Index
The International Phonetic Alphabet
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