English Phonetics and Phonology by Carr, Philip -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents Title Page Copyright 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 Notes 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 Notes 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 Notes 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 Notes 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 Notes 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 Notes 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 Notes Exercises

13 An Outline of Some Accents of English

13.1 Some British Accents 13.2 Two American Accents 13.3 Two Southern Hemisphere Accents 13.4 An Overview of Some Common Phenomena Found in Accent Variation Notes Exercises References