Paul Carley (UK University of Leicester), Inger M. Mees (Denmark Copenhagen Business School)

American English Phonetic Transcription

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an accessible introduction to phonemic, phonetic and intonational transcription with a focus on American English.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9780367441715
• ISBN-10: 0367441713
• Artikelnr.: 61212269

Autorenporträt

Paul Carley has held posts at the University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, the universities of Bedfordshire and Leicester, UK, and the Fakeeh College for Medical Sciences, Jeddah. He is a regular lecturer on the UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics and an examiner for the International Phonetic Association. Inger M. Mees is Associate Professor Emeritus at the Copenhagen Business School and a part-time lecturer in the Department of English, Germanic, and Romance Studies, Copenhagen University. She has formerly held lectureships at the universities of Leiden and Copenhagen, Denmark. She is on the academic staff of the UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics.

Inhaltsangabe

Symbols for phonemic transcription Phonetic symbols and diacritics The International Phonetic Alphabet Preface and acknowledgments Before you start transcribing... PART A: TRANSCRIBING WORDS 1. The familiar consonants /p b t d k
f v s z h m n w l r/ and the vowels /
æ
/ 2. Primary stress, unstressed schwa /
/, unstressed schwar /
r/, and unstressed KIT /
/ 3. Consonants with unfamiliar symbols /
j
ð/ and /t/-voicing 4. The FLEECE /i/ and the GOOSE /u/ vowels 5. The PALM /
/, THOUGHT /
/, SPORT /o/, stressed schwa /
r/ vowels, and DRESS /
/ and TRAP /æ/ before /r/ 6. The FACE /e
/, PRICE /ä/, and CHOICE /
/ vowels 7. The GOAT /o
/and MOUTH /ä/ vowels 8. FLEECE /i/ and GOOSE /u/ before /r/ 9. Syllabic consonants 10. Secondary stress 11. Inflections and epenthesis PART B: TRANSCRIBING CONNECTED SPEECH 12. Connected speech and liaison 13. Stress and weak forms 14. Elision 15. Assimilation 16. Connected speech: extended practice PART C: TRANSCRIBING INTONATION 17. An introduction to intonation 18. Nucleus and tail 19. Head and pre-head 20. Intonation: extended practice APPENDICES A. Summary of consonant and vowel theory B. Phonetic transcription References and suggested reading Index