The Segment in Phonetics and Phonology

The segment is an elusive entity. On the one hand it appears so intuitively obvious that it might appear strange to some that it warrants the attention of an entire volume, yet on the other hand it is not at all clear what it is, where it comes from, or whether or not the concept is entirely chimerical and thus a hindrance in our attempts to understand human language. This volume takes a de…

An Introduction to English Phonetics

Immediately I had agreed to write a book with the title ‘Introduction to the Phonetics of English’, I realised that describing the phonetics of ‘English’ is problematic because English is so phonetically heterogeneous. So the result is a book that is more about phonetics, with illus- trations from around the English-speaking world. It is not a complete description of any one variety;…

Speech Production and Perception

Until the middle of the 20th century phonetics was largely concerned with recording the sounds of languages and how they are made, together with making comparisons between the sound inventories of languages. We are still with that legacy in many ways. We compare surface events noted in one language with another, or note observations in spoken language and assign symbols with a system that …

English Phonetics and Phonology : An Introduction 2nd ed

Edition

2nd edition

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4051-3454-5

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Series Title

An Introduction

Call Number

414.8 Car e