Collins B. Mees I. Practical Phonetics and Phonology

3rd Edition. — Routlede, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013. — 353 p. — ISBN: 978-0-203-08002-3 (ebk)Routledge English language introductions. Although this third edition has several additional features, many corrections and much revision, nevertheless the overall structure of the book remains the same. We saw no reason to make radical changes to what appears on the whole to have been a successful formula.
We wish once more to express our gratitude to all those, acknowledged above, who have assisted us in the past, and to the reviewers, students and colleagues who have helped us with this edition. Special thanks go to Philip Carr, Andrew Kehoe, Petr Rösel and Jack Windsor Lewis. We also want to put on record our debt to Paul Carley, Marta Dura, Alex Rotatori and Masaki Taniguchi for their contributions to the new language descriptions in Section C. In addition, we have benefited from feedback from our students – especially from participants in the University College London Summer Course in English Phonetics (SCEP) in recent years. At Routledge, we have had much help and support, and we now want to thank Isabelle Cheng, Rachel Daw, Sarah May and, especially, for overseeing the whole operation, Nadia Seemungal.List of figures
List of tables
List of tracks on audio CD
Prefaces and acknowledgements
List of phonetic symbolsEnglish worldwide
Phoneme, allophone and syllable
Connected speech and phonemic transcription
How we produce speech
Consonant possibilities
Vowel possibilities
Development
Phoneme and syllable revisited
English consonants
English vowels
English spelling
Features of connected speech
Stress and rhythm
Speech melody
Exploration
Accent variation – General American
Accents of the British Isles 1: England
Accents of the British Isles 2: Celtic-influenced varieties
World accent varieties
Pronunciation change: past, present, future
Teaching and learning a foreign language
Extension
RP – R.I.P.? (David Abercrombie)
Attitudes to accents (Daniel Jones)
Pronunciation worries (David Crystal)
Teaching the pronunciation of a second language (Peter Avery and Susan Ehrlich)
Phonetics applied to teaching the deaf (Dennis Fry)
Making computers talk (Peter Ladefoged)
Using phonetics in criminal investigations (Maurice Varney)
The rise of ‘upspeak’ (Barbara Bradford)
English accents and their implications for spelling reform (J. C. Wells)
The sociolinguistics of modern RP (Peter Trudgill)
Glossary
Further reading

The International Phonetic Alphabet