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"Designed to be used in conjunction with ""The Phonetics of English and Dutch"", this workbook contains 24 English and Dutch passages in phonetic transcription. Keys are provided for 15 dictated passages (recorded on cassette). An additional 50 passages, printed in conventional orthography, are included (for which transcription keys are obtainable for recognized teachers on request). The book also includes 15 allophonic descriptions of English words and phrases providing an exercise for students learning articulatory phoentics in relation to English. Transcripts are provided for 12 representative varieties of British and Irish English. The accents illustrated are London (cockney), Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, West Glamorgan, Southampton, Cardiff and Hartlepool. All the informants are authentic speakers of the variety concerned and the samples are overwhelmingly of genuine conversational language. A further section is included with over 350 questions on phonetics, covering the material dealt with in the textbook ""The Phonetics of English and Dutch""."

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Author:   Beverley Collins ,  Inger Mees
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Edition:   4th
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.180kg
ISBN:  

9789004109100

ISBN 10:   9004109102
Pages:   88
Publication Date:   01 December 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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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, Dctorate in Sciolinguistics, University of Leiden, 1983, is Associate Professor at the

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