Describing Spoken English | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles W.kreidler
Publisher: Taylor Francis
Category: EBooks
List Price: $49.95
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 105431
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Pages: 236
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 421.52
ASIN: B000OI0IRS
Publication Date: March 14, 2007
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Pb/bbiDescribing Spoken English/i/b provides a practical introduction to the pronunciation of contemporary English. Requiring no prior knowledge of phonetics or phonology, the book examines the main varieties of English, focusing on the elements common to all native-speaker varieties and presents the differences as minor variations on a theme. brbrThe book is divided into twelve chapters which cover speech production, principles of phonological analysis, consonants, the vowel systems of different varieties of the language, syllable structure, strong and weak syllables, phonological processes in connected speech, stress in simple words and compounds, tone units and utterances, the role of accent in discourse, and the interrelations of morphology and phonology. Presented in an accessible jargon-free style, b/bbiDescribing Spoken English/i/b will be essential for all students of the English language and linguistics./P
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Describing Spoken English : An Introduction April 1, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the textbook I have chosen for the English phonetics course I teach. The book covers all the aspects of English phonetics and phonology in an easy to follow style. An interesting feature of this book is Kreidles's approach to differences across dialects of English as viariations on the same theme. The book discusses all of the aspects of English phonology: segments (consonants and vowels), syllables, phonological processes (assimilation, elision, weak forms, etc), word stress, phrase stress and intonation. A summary and a discussion are found at the end of each chapter. There are also several exercises with key in the book which makes it suitable for self-study.
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