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- the production of speech- Long vowels diphthongs and triphthongs
- Voicing and consonants
- the phoneme
- Fricatives and affricates
- Nasals and other consonants
- the Syllable
- Strong and weak syllables
- stress in simple words
- Complex word stress
- Weak forms
- problems in phonemic analysis
- Aspects of connected speech
- intonation1
- intonation2
- intonation3
- Functions of intonation1
- Functions of intonation2
- Further areas of study in phonetics and Phonology
This is a complete basic course in english phonetics and phonology . since its pupublication it has established itself as the most practical , comprehensive text in the field and become widely used in many parts of the world in universities and other institiuations of highre education . It used by both native and non-native speakers , who may be training to teach english or studying the language at an advanced level .
The new edition takes into account recent developments on the teaching of phonology and a number of improvements have been made in responce to feedback from users world wide . These include ,
-updated references
-Revised transcriptions
-A wider discussion of different varieties of english
-updated treatment of intonation
The recorded exercise material remains unchanged.
English Phonetics and phonology bridges the gap between simple pronunciation handbooks and technical phonetics and phonology textbooks . Its twenty chapters present the basic factual information and crucial theoretical issues in a concise , practical and readable way the chapters are cross-referenced to the recordings which consist of practical exercises on two cassettes or CDs . At the end of each chapter there are notes giving information on further reading , discussion of difficult issues , written exercies and where appropriate , suggestions for teachers .
Peter Roach has been teaching phonetics and English pronunciation for over 30 years and is the principal editor of Daniel Jones english pronouncing Dictionary 16th edition . He is currently professor of phonetics at the university of readig.
