Peter Roach - English Phonetics and Phonology 4th edition (Cambridge)

Contents

Preface to the fourth edition List of symbols x

Chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet

i Introduction i

1.1 How the course is organised i

1.2 The English Phonetics and Phonology website 2

1.3 Phonemes and other aspects of pronunciation 2

1.4 Accents and dialects 3

2 The production of speech sounds 8

2.1 Articulators above the larynx 8

2.2 Vowel and consonant 10

2.3 English short vowels 13

3 Long vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs 16

3.1 English long vowels 16

3.2 Diphthongs 17

3.3 Triphthongs 18

4 Voicing and consonants 22

4.1 The larynx 22

4.2 Respiration and voicing 24

4.3 Plosives 26

4.4 English plosives 26

4.5 Fortis and lenis 28

5 Phonemes and symbols 31

5.1 The phoneme 31

5.2 Symbols and transcription 33

5.3 Phonology 35

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