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Author:   Beverley Collins ,  Inger Mees
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Edition:   3rd New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9789004132252

ISBN 10:   9004132252
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   09 May 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 1. A working basis 2. The phoneme 3. Transcription 4. The speech mechanism 5. Classification of consonants 6. Fortis/lenis contrast in Dutch and English 7. Secondary articulation 8. Description and classification of vowels 9. Back to the phoneme 10. Phonation and states of the glottis 11. English checked vowels 12. English free vowels 13. Sounds and spelling: vowels 14. The vowels of Dutch 15. English fricative consonants 16. English stop consonants 17. English nasal and approximant consonants 18. Sounds and spelling: consonants 19. The consonants of Dutch 20. Patterns of adjustment in connected speech: assimilation and elision 21. Articulatory setting in English and Dutch 22. Stress and rhythm 23. Pitch, tone and intonation 24. Functions of intonation in English 25. Intonation in Dutch and English compared 26. Error analysis 27. A brief look at other accents of the British Isles 28. Some differences between American and British English Guide to the technique of phonemic transcription Guide to the technique of allophonic description Glossary of technical terms Key to exercises Further reading and list of works consulted Vowel symbols used in various systems of transcription Selected list of diacritics and phonetic symbols The International Phonetic Alphabet English Phonetic Symbol checksheet Index

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Beverley Collins, Doctorate in Phonetics, University of Utrecht (1988), is Lecturer in English at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Inger Mees, Doctorate in Sociolinguistics, University of Leiden (1983), is Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

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