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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Paul Carley (University of Leicester, UK) , Inger M. Mees (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780367441371ISBN 10: 0367441373 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 27 May 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsSymbols for phonemic transcription Phonetic symbols and diacritics The International Phonetic Alphabet Preface and acknowledgements Before you start transcribing… PART A: TRANSCRIBING WORDS 1. The familiar consonants /p b t d k ɡ f v s z h m n w l r/ and the vowels /ɪ æ e ɒ ʌ ʊ/ 2. Primary stress, schwa /ə/ and unstressed KIT /ɪ/ 3. Consonants with unfamiliar symbols: /ʃ ʒ ʧ ʤ j ŋ θ ð/ 4. The FLEECE /iː/ and GOOSE /uː/ vowels 5. The PALM /ɑː/, THOUGHT /ɔː/, NURSE /ɜː/ and SQUARE /ɛː/ vowels 6. The FACE /eɪ/, PRICE /aɪ/ and CHOICE /ɔɪ/ vowels 7. The GOAT /əʊ/ and MOUTH /aʊ/ vowels 8. The NEAR /ɪə/ and CURE /ʊə/ vowels 9. Syllabic consonants 10. Secondary stress 11. Inflections and epenthesis PART B: TRANSCRIBING CONNECTED SPEECH 12. Connected speech and liaison 13. Stress and weak forms 14. Elision 15. Assimilation 16. Connected speech: extended practice PART C: TRANSCRIBING INTONATION 17. An introduction to intonation 18. Nucleus and tail 19. Head and pre-head 20. Intonation: Extended practice APPENDICES A. Summary of consonant and vowel theory B. Phonetic transcription References and suggested reading IndexReviewsDealing first with the consonant symbols already familiar to us from our traditional alphabet, then the additional consonant symbols required and those used for representing English vowels, this beautifully clear transcription course, written by two internationally acclaimed experts, provides abundant, carefully prepared practice material for committing sounds to paper. Guiding the user not only through the phonemic representation of single words and connected speech, but also including more detailed transcription for the more advanced learner, together with exercises for marking up intonation, this is a fully up-to-date treatment of British English pronunciation, including detailed comparisons with American English and, not least, an appendix on articulation. Brian Mott, University of Barcelona, Spain Dealing first with the consonant symbols already familiar to us from our traditional alphabet, then the additional consonant symbols required and those used for representing English vowels, this beautifully clear transcription course, written by two internationally acclaimed experts, provides abundant, carefully prepared practice material for committing sounds to paper. Guiding the user not only through the phonemic representation of single words and connected speech, but also including more detailed transcription for the more advanced learner, together with exercises for marking up intonation, this is a fully up-to-date treatment of British English pronunciation, including detailed comparisons with American English and, not least, an appendix on articulation. Brian Mott, University of Barcelona, Spain Having leafed through this book you ask yourself how you managed to survive all these years without it, because you no longer have to design your own exercises or scrape them together from other sources. This book will develop, improve and consolidate transcription skills; this makes it a must-have book. Petr Roesel, University of Mainz, Germany Author InformationPaul Carley has held posts at the University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, the universities of Bedfordshire and Leicester, UK, and the Fakeeh College for Medical Sciences, Jeddah. He is a regular lecturer on the UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics and examiner for the International Phonetic Association. Inger M. Mees is Associate Professor Emeritus at the Copenhagen Business School and a part-time lecturer in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, Copenhagen University. She has formerly held lectureships at the universities of Leiden and Copenhagen. She is on the academic staff of the UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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