English Phonetic Transcription (Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics) Book

A manual primarily for investigators and teachers of English phonetics, but it could be helpful to theoreticians. The focus is on transcriptional procedures. The author's original design was Southern British pronunciation, but he has since adapted this to the needs of a broader readership.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Preliminaries2. Boundaries3. Some suprasegmental phenomena4. Phrasing and intonation5. Production and classification of speech sounds6. Consonant orders, phonation, length, and glottalization7. Special phenomena relating to consonants--chiefly apical stops8. Sonorants and sibilants9. Synæresis, spirantization, and sonorant-degemination10. Assimilation and epenthesis11. Vowels and diphthongs12. Gemination and attendant nuclear changes13. Further details on compound nuclei and related matters14. Nuclear reduction, syllabic nasals, and detriphthongization15. Spelling pronunciations and other curiositiesAppendix A: The underlying vowels of most English lectsAppendix B: Long i and uAppendix C: StandardsRead More