English Phonetics and Phonology

You probably want to know what the purpose of this course is, and what you can expect to learn from it. An important purpose of the course is to explain how English is pronounced in the accent normally chosen as the standard for people learning the English spoken in England.

English Phonetics and Phonology

Peter Roach

Cambridge University Press

2009

Abstract

You probably want to know what the purpose of this course is, and what you can expect to learn from it. An important purpose of the course is to explain how English is pronounced in the accent normally chosen as the standard for people learning the English spoken in England.

Contents:

• Introduction
• The production of speech sounds
• Long vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs
• Voicing and consonants
• Phonemes and symbols
• 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
• Intonation 1
• Intonation 2
• Intonation 3
• Functions of intonation 1
• Functions of intonation 2
• Varieties of English pronunciation

Citation

Peter Roach. English Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Collection

Ngành NGÔN NGỮ ANH (7220201)

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