Providing a practical and descriptive introduction to the pronunciation of contemporary English, Describing Spoken English assumes no prior knowledge of phonetics and phonology.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface, Symbols and typographic conventions 1 The pronunciation of English 1.1 Dialects 1.2 English outside of England 1.3 Differences and commonalities 1.4 Plan of this book 2 Speech 3 The structure of language 4 English consonants 5 English vowels 6 Syllables 7 Strong and weak syllables 8 Word stress 9 Stress in compound words and phrases 10 The role of accent in discourse 11 Intonation 12 Morphemes that vary in form
