A new edition of the popular introductory text on the phonological structure of present-day English.
A clear and accessible introductory text on the phonological structure of the English language, English Phonetics and Phonology is an ideal text for those with no prior knowledge of the subject. This market-leading textbook teaches undergraduate students and non-native English speakers the fundamentals of articulatory phonetics and phonology in an engaging, easy-to-understand style.
Rigorously expanded to include new materials on first and second language acquisition of English phonetics and phonology, this third edition, English Phonetics and Phonology boasts two new chapters on first-language and second-language acquisition of English phonetics and phonology. By introducing topics such as the mental lexicon and the emergence of phonological rules and representations, and graphophonemic problems in L2 acquisition, these two new chapters have been added to afford greater flexibility for teachers and increased support for non-native English speakers. Expanded website content includes exercise-linked sound files.
Based on the author’s 34 years of teaching English Phonetics and Phonology in the UK and France Includes coverage of various accents in English and second-language acquisition Hugely successful textbook for the introductory Phonetics course, now in its third edition References and exercises across all chapters to guide students throughout the work Provides access to companion website for additional learning tools, sound files, and instructor resources
English Phonetics and Phonology is an indispensable resource for undergraduate students in courses on Phonetics and Phonology with no prior knowledge of theoretical linguistics and non-native English speakers alike.
By:
Philip Carr
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 3rd edition
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9781119533740
ISBN 10: 1119533740
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 21 November 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Prefaces to the First Edition ix Preface to the Second Edition xiii Preface to the Third Edition xv Acknowledgements xvii List of Sound Recordings xix About the Companion Website xxiii Figure 1 The organs of speech xxiv Figure 2 The International Phonetic Alphabet xxv 1 English Phonetics: Consonants (i) 1 1.1 Airstream and Articulation 1 1.2 Place of Articulation 2 1.3 Manner of Articulation: Stops, Fricatives and Approximants 5 2 English Phonetics: Consonants (ii) 11 2.1 Central vs Lateral 11 2.2 Taps and Trills 11 2.3 Secondary Articulation 12 2.4 Affricates 12 2.5 Aspiration 13 2.6 Nasal Stops 13 3 English Phonetics: Vowels (i) 17 3.1 The Primary Cardinal Vowels 17 3.2 RP and GA Short Vowels 19 4 English Phonetics: Vowels (ii) 23 4.1 RP and GA Long Vowels 23 4.2 RP and GA Diphthongs 24 5 The Phonemic Principle 29 5.1 Introduction: Linguistic Knowledge 29 5.2 Contrast vs Predictability: The Phoneme 30 5.3 Phonemes, Allophones and Contexts 37 5.4 Summing Up 38 6 English Phonemes 43 6.1 English Consonant Phonemes 43 6.2 The Phonological Form of Morphemes 45 6.3 English Vowel Phonemes 49 7 English Syllable Structure 55 7.1 Introduction 55 7.2 Constituency in Syllable Structure 55 7.3 The Sonority Hierarchy, Maximal Onset and Syllable Weight 59 7.4 Language‐Specific Phonotactics 63 7.5 Syllabic Consonants and Phonotactics 64 7.6 Syllable‐Based Generalizations 65 7.7 Morphological Structure, Syllable Structure and Resyllabification 66 7.8 Summing Up 69 8 Rhythm and Word Stress in English 71 8.1 The Rhythm of English 71 8.2 English Word Stress: Is it Entirely Random? 72 8.3 English Word Stress: Some General Principles 75 8.4 Word Stress Assignment in Morphologically Simple Words 76 8.5 Word Stress Assignment and Morphological Structure 80 8.6 Compound Words 85 8.7 Summing Up 87 9 Rhythm, Reversal and Reduction 91 9.1 More on the Trochaic Metrical Foot 91 9.2 Representing Metrical Structure 94 9.3 Phonological Generalizations and Foot Structure 98 9.4 The Rhythm of English Again: Stress Timing and Eurhythmy 100 10 English Intonation 109 10.1 Tonic Syllables, Tones and Intonation Phrases 109 10.2 Departures from the LLI Rule 111 10.3 IPs and Syntactic Units 116 10.4 Tonic Placement, IP Boundaries and Syntax 121 10.5 Tones and Syntax 123 10.6 Tonic Placement and Discourse Context 124 10.7 Summing Up 125 11 Graphophonemics: Spelling–Pronunciation Relations 129 11.1 Introduction 129 11.2 Vowel Graphemes and Their Phonemic Values 130 11.3 Consonant Graphemes and Their Phonemic Values 135 12 Variation in English Accents 143 12.1 Introduction 143 12.2 Systemic vs Realizational Differences between Accents 144 12.3 Perceptual and Articulatory Space 148 12.4 Differences in the Lexical Distribution of Phonemes 152 13 An Outline of Some Accents of English 155 13.1 Some British Accents 155 13.2 Two American Accents 164 13.3 Two Southern Hemisphere Accents 167 13.4 An Overview of Some Common Phenomena Found in Accent Variation 170 14 First‐Language (L1) Acquisition of English Phonetics and Phonology 181 14.1 The First Six Months 181 14.2 The Second Six Months 183 14.3 The Second Year of Life 184 14.4 The Mental Lexicon and the Emergence of Phonological Rules and Representations 187 14.5 The Bilingual Child 188 15 Second‐Language (L2) Acquisition of English Phonetics and Phonology 193 15.1 Introduction: General Issues 193 15.2 Types of Problem in L2 Acquisition of English Phonetics and Phonology 195 15.3 Phonetic Inventories and Phonemic Systems 195 15.4 Graphophonemic Problems 200 15.5 Phonotactics 201 15.6 Rhythm and Word Stress 202 15.7 Intonation 204 15.8 Concluding Remarks on L2 Acquisition of English Phonetics and Phonology 205 Suggested Further Reading 209 Index 213
PHILIP CARR is Emeritus Professor at Montpellier University, France. He is the author of Phonology (1993), A Glossary of Phonology (2008), and Linguistic Realities (1990), editor of Phonological Knowledge: Conceptual and Empirical Issues (2001) and Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity (2005). With Jacques Durand, he co-founded the project The Phonology of Contemporary English.
Reviews for English Phonetics and Phonology: An Introduction
The book is well-structured starting with a brief and simple description of the English vowel and consonant systems and the acoustic features of the English sounds, and continuing with more complicated aspects such as rhythm, stress, and intonation. Another advantage of this textbook is that it allows readers to listen to speech material and respond to exercises in order to better familiarize themselves with the phenomena of each chapter; this material is found as an online database. - Dr Georgios P. Georgiou, RUDN University, Moscow for Linguist List, March 2020
