 Applied English Phonology
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0871-3
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256 pages
September 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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Note to the Instructor.
1. Phonetics.
1.1 Introduction.
1.2 Phonetic transcription.
1.3 Description and articulation of sounds of English.
1.3.1 The vocal tract.
1.3.2 Voicing.
1.3.3 Places of articulation.
1.3.4 Manners of articulation.
1.3.5 Voice onset time.
1.3.6 Vowels and diphthongs.
1.4 Additional sounds.
1.4.1 States of glottis.
1.4.2 Places and manners of articulation.
1.4.3 Consonants made with non-pulmonic air stream mechanism.
1.4.4 Vowels.
1.5 Cardinal vowels.
1.6 Syllables and suprasegmentals.
Summary.
Exercises.
2. Phonology.
2.1 Introduction.
2.2 Complementary versus overlapping distribution.
2.2.1 Overlapping distribution and contrast.
2.2.2 Complementary distribution.
2.3 Phonemic analysis: A mini demo.
2.4 Free variation.
2.5 Morphophonology.
2.6 Practical uses of phonological analysis.
Summary.
Exercises.
3. English consonants.
3.1 Stops.
3.2 Fricatives.
3.3 Affricates.
3.4 Nasals.
3.5 Approximants.
Summary.
Exercises.
4. English vowels.
4.1 Introduction.
4.2 Vowel set of American English.
4.2.1 Phonetic properties of vowels.
4.2.2 Tense ¡V lax.
4.2.3 Nasalized vowels.
4.2.4 Length.
4.2.5 Vowels before /„Y/.
4.2.6 Vowels before /l/.
4.3 Front vowels.
4.4 Central vowels.
4.5 Back vowels.
4.6 Diphthongs.
4.7 Full vowel ¡V reduced vowels.
4.8 Full forms vs. reduced forms of function words.
Summary.
Exercises.
5. Acoustics of vowels and consonants.
5.1 Introduction.
5.2 Vowels.
5.3 Diphthongs.
5.4 Consonants.
5.4.1 Stops.
5.4.2 Fricatives.
5.4.3 Affricates.
5.4.4 Approximants.
5.4.5 Nasals.
5.5 Putting it together.
5.6 Context.
5.7 Practical applications: some examples.
Summary.
Exercises.
6. Syllables.
6.1 Introduction.
6.2 Number of syllables.
6.3 Sonority.
6.4 Syllabification.
6.5 English syllable phonotactics.
6.5.1 Single onsets.
6.5.2 Double onsets.
6.5.3 Triple onsets.
6.5.4 Codas.
6.5.5 Double codas.
6.5.6 Triple codas.
6.6 Written syllabification.
6.7 Syllable weight and ambisyllabicity.
6.8 Practical applications.
Summary.
Exercises.
7. Stress and intonation.
7.1 Introduction.
7.2 Noun and adjective stress.
7.3 Verb stress.
7.4 Secondary stress.
7.5 Affixes.
7.5.1 Stress-bearing (attracting) suffixes.
7.5.2 Stress-neutral suffixes.
7.5.3 Stress-shifting (fixing) suffixes.
7.6 Stress in compounds.
7.7 Differences between American and British English.
7.8 Intonation.
Summary.
Exercises.
8. Structural factors in L2 phonology.
8.1 Introduction.
8.2 Mini contrastive analyses.
8.2.1 Spanish-English.
8.2.2 Turkish-English.
8.2.3 Greek-English.
8.2.4 French-English.
8.2.5 German-English.
8.2.6 Arabic-English.
8.2.7 Russian-English.
8.2.8 Korean-English.
8.2.9 Portuguese-English.
8.2.10 Persian (Farsi)- English.
8.3 Differential treatment of mismatches.
8.3.1 Basic vs. derived context.
8.3.2 Deflected contrast.
8.3.3 Hypercontrast.
8.4 Markedness.
Summary.
Exercises.
9. Spelling and pronunciation.
9.1 Irregularity of English spelling.
9.2 Phoneme-grapheme correspondences in English.
9.2.1 Consonants.
9.2.2 Vowels.
9.3 Morphological basis of English spelling.
9.4 American English vs. British English.
Summary.
Exercises.
Recommended Readings.
Glossary.
References.
Index.
