John C. Wells

Accents of English

An Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in different places.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1982
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780521297196
• ISBN-10: 0521297192
• Artikelnr.: 21095864

Inhaltsangabe

Volume I: An Introduction: Preface
Typographical conventions and phonetic symbols
Part I. Aspects of Accent: 1. Linguistic and social variability
2. Accent phonology
3. How accents differ
4. Why accents differ
Part II. Sets and Systems: 5. The reference accents
6. Standard lexical sets
7. Systems: a typology
Part III. Developments and Processes: 8. Residualisms
9. British prestige innovations
10. Some American innovations
11. Some further British innovations
Sources and further reading
References
Index.