Practical English Phonetics and Phonology : A Resource Book for Students

List of figures List of tables Audio recordings (on companion website) Prefaces and acknowledgements Phonetic symbols English phonemic transcription key 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 English consonants 7 Vowel possibilities 8 English vowels 9 English spelling B Development 1 Phoneme and syllable revisited 2 Features of connected speech 3 Stress and rhythm 4 Speech melody 5 Pronunciation change 6 Teaching a foreign language 7 Learning a foreign language 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 1: North America 5 World accent varieties 2: the Southern Hemisphere 6 World accent varieties 3: second-language varieties and creole-influenced speech D Extension 1 Attitudes to accents (Daniel Jones) 2 Preliminaries to teaching pronunciation (Peter Avery and Susan Ehrlich) 3 English accents and their implications for spelling reform (J. C. Wells) 4 Teaching the pronunciation of English (David Crystal) 5 Syllabification and allophony (J. C. Wells) Glossary Further reading References Index The International Phonetic Alphabet 307