Studies in General and English Phonetics (eBook, ePUB)

Essays in Honour of Professor J.D. O'Connor
Redaktion: Lewis, Jack Windsor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rhythm, intonation, exotic and familiar languages as well as computer-sythesized audio-communications, procedures in forensic linguistics, pronunciation lexicography, language change and sociological aspects of speech such as English regional accents and dialects in Britain and other parts of the world are covered in these thirty-eight articles in tribute to Professor J.D. O'Connor by an international list of contributors, including many world famous names. With an invaluable up-to-date bibliography, no university library will be complete without it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134894284
• Artikelnr.: 38245725

Autorenporträt

Jack Windsor Lewis

Inhaltsangabe

I: General Phonetics and Phonological Theory
1: On some neutralisations and archiphonemes in English allegro speech
2: The phonetics of neutralisation
3: Some articulatory characteristics of the tap
4: Assimilations of alveolar stops and nasals in connected speech
5: Field procedures in forensic speaker recognition
6: Voice types in automated telecommunications applications
7: The effect of context on the transcription of vowel quality
8: Place of articulation features for clicks
9: Postura
II: Pitch, Intonation and Rhythm
10: Spelling aloud
11: Rises in English
12: Documenting rhythmical change
13: The social distribution of intonation patterns in Belfast
14: Principles of intonational typology
15: Intonational stereotype
16: Speech fundamental frequency over the telephone and face-to-face
17: The effect of emphasis on declination in English intonation
18: Nucleus placement in English and Spanish
19: Rhythm and duration in Spanish
20: The boundaries of intonation units
21: Stylisation of the falling tone in Hungarian intonation
22: The teaching of English intonation
III: The Phonetics of Mother-Tongue English
23: A 'tenny' rate
24: Pronunciation and the rich points of culture
25: Spelling pronunciation and related matters in New Zealand English
26: Quantifying English homophones and minimal pairs
27: Consonant-associated resonance in three varieties of English
28: Syllabification and rhythm in non-segmental phonology
29: The vowels of Scottish English - formants and features
30: A neglected feature of British East Midlands accents and its possible implications for the history of a vowel merger in English
31: Mixing and fudging in Midland and Southern dialects of England
32: The low vowels of Vancouver English
33: New syllabic consonants in English
IV: The Phonetics of Non-Mother-Tongue English
34: Approaches to articulatory setting in foreign-language teaching
35: The English accent of the Shilluk speaker
36: Segmental errors in the pronunciation of Danish speakers of English
37: Describing the pronunciation of loanwords from English
38: What do EFL teachers need to know about pronunciation?