Collins Beverley, Mees Inger M., Carley Paul. Practical English Phonetics and Phonology: A Resource Book for Students

4th edition. — Routledge, 2019. — 925 p. — (Routledge English Language Introductions). — ISBN 978-0-429-49039-2.Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings – all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible ‘two-dimensional’ structure is built around four sections – Introduction, Development, Exploration and Extension – which offer self-contained stages for study. This edition has been completely reorganised and new features include: updated descriptions of the sounds of modern English and the adoption of the term General British (GB); considerable expansion of the treatment of intonation, including new recordings; and two new readings by David Crystal and John Wells. Written by authors who are experienced teachers and researchers, this best-selling textbook will appeal to all students of English language and linguistics and those training for a certificate in TEFL.English worldwide
Phoneme, allophone and syllable
Connected speech and phonemic transcription
How we produce speech
Consonant possibilities
English consonants
Vowel possibilities
English vowels
English spelling
Development
Phoneme and syllable revisited
Features of connected speech
Stress and rhythm
Speech melody
Pronunciation change
Teaing a foreign language
Learning a foreign language
Exploration
Accent variation: General American
Accents of the British Isles 1: England
Accents of the British Isles 2: Celtic-influenced varieties
World accent varieties 1: North America
World accent varieties 2: the Southern Hemisphere
World accent varieties 3: second-language varieties and creole-influenced speech
Extension
Attitudes to Accents
Preliminaries to teaching pronunciation
English accents and their implications for spelling reform
Teaching the pronunciation of English
Syllabification and allophony