Pronouncing English: A Stress-Based Approach
Pronouncing English is a textbook for teaching English phonetics and phonology, offering an original "stress-based" approach while incorporating all the standard course topics. Drawing on current linguistic theory, it uniquely analyzes prosody first, and then discusses its effects on pronunciation -- emphasizing suprasegmental features such as meter, stress, and intonation, then the vowels and consonants themselves.\ Distinguished by being the first work of its kind to be based on an...
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Revolutionary in its field, Pronouncing English declares that virtually all aspects of English pronunciation -- from the vowel system to the articulation of syllables, words, and sentences -- are determined by the presence or absence of stress. Drawing on current linguistic theory, it uniquely analyzes prosody first, and then discusses its effects on pronunciation -- emphasizing suprasegmental features such as meter, stress, and intonation, then the vowels and consonants themselves. Distinguished by being the first work of its kind to be based on an exhaustive statistical analysis of all the lexical entries of an entire dictionary, Pronouncing English is complemented by a list of symbols and a glossary. The accompanying CD-ROM carries data files on which the statistical observations were based, along with audio recordings of many of the volume's exercises -- more than 100 text and sound files.
PrefaceList of symbolsCh. 1The metric foot1Ch. 2Strong stresses and weak : how to know where they go27Ch. 3Intonation - the melodic line61Ch. 4From orthography to pronunciation95Ch. 5Vowels135Ch. 6Consonants159Ch. 7Sounds and forms that change and merge211Ch. 8Appendix251Glossary263References273Index277
