Intro -- English Phonetics and Phonology: An Introduction -- Contents -- List of Sound Recordings -- Prefaces to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Figure 1 The organs of speech -- Figure 2 The International Phonetic Alphabet -- 1 English Phonetics: Consonants (i) -- 1.1 Airstream and Articulation -- 1.2 Place of Articulation -- 1.3 Manner of Articulation: Stops, Fricatives and Approximants -- Exercises -- 2 English Phonetics: Consonants (ii) -- 2.1 Central vs Lateral -- 2.2 Taps and Trills -- 2.3 Secondary Articulation -- 2.4 Affricates -- 2.5 Aspiration -- 2.6 Nasal Stops -- Exercises -- 3 English Phonetics: Vowels (i) -- 3.1 The Primary Cardinal Vowels -- 3.2 RP and GA Short Vowels -- Exercises -- 4 English Phonetics: Vowels (ii) -- 4.1 RP and GA Long Vowels -- 4.2 RP and GA Diphthongs -- Exercises -- 5 The Phonemic Principle -- 5.1 Introduction: Linguistic Knowledge -- 5.2 Contrast vs Predictability: The Phoneme -- 5.3 Phonemes, Allophones and Contexts -- 5.4 Summing Up -- Exercises -- 6 English Phonemes -- 6.1 English Consonant Phonemes -- 6.2 The Phonological Form of Morphemes -- 6.3 English Vowel Phonemes -- Exercises -- 7 English Syllable Structure -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Constituency in Syllable Structure -- 7.3 The Sonority Hierarchy, Maximal Onset and Syllable Weight -- 7.4 Language-Specific Phonotactics -- 7.5 Syllabic Consonants and Phonotactics -- 7.6 Syllable-Based Generalizations -- 7.7 Morphological Structure, Syllable Structure and Resyllabification -- 7.8 Summing Up -- Exercises -- 8 Rhythm and Word Stress in English -- 8.1 The Rhythm of English -- 8.2 English Word Stress: Is It Entirely Random? -- 8.3 English Word Stress: Some General Principles -- 8.4 Word Stress Assignment in Morphologically Simple Words -- 8.5 Word Stress Assignment and Morphological Structure -- 8.6 Compound Words.

8.7 Summing Up -- Exercises -- 9 Rhythm, Reversal and Reduction -- 9.1 More on the Trochaic Metrical Foot -- 9.2 Representing Metrical Structure -- 9.3 Phonological Generalizations and Foot Structure -- 9.4 The Rhythm of English Again: Stress Timing and Eurhythmy -- Exercises -- 10 English Intonation -- 10.1 Tonic Syllables, Tones and Intonation Phrases -- 10.2 Departures from the LLI Rule -- 10.3 IPs and Syntactic Units -- 10.4 Tonic Placement, IP Boundaries and Syntax -- 10.5 Tones and Syntax -- 10.6 Tonic Placement and Discourse Context -- 10.7 Summing Up -- Exercises -- 11 Graphophonemics: Spelling-Pronunciation Relations -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Vowel Graphemes and Their Phonemic Values -- 11.3 Consonant Graphemes and Their Phonemic Values -- Exercises -- 12 Variation in English Accents -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Systemic vs Realizational Differences between Accents -- 12.3 Perceptual and Articulatory Space -- 12.4 Differences in the Lexical Distribution of Phonemes -- Exercises -- 13 An Outline of Some Accents of English -- 13.1 Some British Accents -- 13.2 Two American Accents -- 13.3 Two Southern Hemisphere Accents -- 13.4 An Overview of Some Common Phenomena Found in Accent Variation -- Exercises -- Suggested Further Reading -- Index.

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