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UNINA9910779316303321 |
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Collins Beverley |
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Titolo |
Practical phonetics and phonology : a resource book for students / / Beverley Collins and Inger M. Mees |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-16372-7 |
0-203-08002-5 |
1-299-13715-6 |
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Edizione |
[3rd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge English language introductions |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Phonetics |
English language - Phonology |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Practical Phonetics and Phonology; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of tracks on audio CD; Prefaces and acknowledgements; List of phonetic symbols; A: Introduction; 1 English worldwide; 2 Phoneme, allophone and syllable; 3 Connected speech and phonemic transcription; 4 How we produce speech; 5 Consonant possibilities; 6. Vowel possibilities; B: Development; 1 Phoneme and syllable revisited; 2 English consonants; 3 English vowels; 4 English spelling; 5 Features of connected speech; 6 Stress and rhythm; 7 Speech melody; C: Exploration |
1 Accent variation - General American2 Accents of the British Isles 1: England; 3 Accents of the British Isles 2: Celtic-influenced varieties; 4 World accent varieties; 5 Pronunciation change: past, present, future; 6 Teaching and learning a foreign language; D: Extension; 1 RP - R.I.P.? (David Abercrombie); 2 Attitudes to accents (Daniel Jones); 3 Pronunciation worries (David Crystal); 4 Teaching the pronunciation of a second language (Peter Avery and Susan Ehrlich); 5 Phonetics applied to teaching the deaf (Dennis Fry); 6 Making computers talk (Peter Ladefoged) |
7 Using phonetics in criminal investigations (Maurice Varney)8 The rise of 'upspeak' (Barbara Bradford); 9 English accents and their implications for spelling reform (J. C. Wells); 10 The sociolinguistics of modern RP |
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(Peter Trudgill); Glossary; Further reading; References; Index; The International Phonetic Alphabet |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings-all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible 'two-dimensional' structure is built around four sections-introduction, development, exploration and extension-which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the rea |
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