Sound Patterns of Spoken English

Author:   Linda Shockey (University of Reading)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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Pages:   168
Publication Date:   20 December 2002
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Author:   Linda Shockey (University of Reading)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780631230793


ISBN 10:   0631230793
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   20 December 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables. Preface. 1 Setting the Stage. 1.1 Phonetics or Phonology? 1.2 Fast Speech? 2 Processes in Conversational English. 2.1 The Vulnerability Hierarchy. 2.2 Reduction Processes in English. 2.3 Stress as a Conditioning Factor. 2.4 Syllabic Conditioning Factors. 2.5 Other Processes. 2.6 Icons. 2.7 Weak Forms? 2.8 Combinations of these Processes. 3 Attempts at Phonological Explanation. 3.1 Past Work on Conversational Phonology. 3.2 Natural Phonology. 3.3 Variable Rules. 3.4 More on Rule Order. 3.5 Attempts in the 1990s. 3.6 And into the New Millennium. 4 Experimental Studies in Casual Speech. 4.1 Production of Casual Speech. 4.2 Perception of Casual Speech. 5 Applications. 5.1 Phonology. 5.2 First and Second Language Acquisition. 5.3 Interacting with Computers. Bibliography. Index.

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'This is an excellent book that gives a true account of what English speech is really like.' Gerry Knowles, University of Lancaster 'Linda Shockey addresses questions of interest to nearly every phonetician and phonologist, providing extensive examples of attested conversational reductions in numerous dialects of English. By presenting the reductions along with their linguistic conditioning factors, she strikes a forceful blow against the belief that casual speech is simply sloppy speech. Sound Patterns of Spoken English will be of interest to theoretical phonologists and experimental phoneticians, as well as researchers in speech perception, language acquisition and speech technology.' Lisa Lavoie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "...the detailed information that is densely packed into this quite short text will be appreciated by many phoneticians, who will find it an exceptionally useful summary of the processes that affect conversational speech and the contexts under which they are most likely to occur." Journal of the International Phonetic Association


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Linda Shockey is Lecturer in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at the University of Reading. She specializes in acoustic and articulatory phonetics and phonology and is co-editor of In Honor of Ilse Lehiste (1988).

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