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OverviewSound Patterns of Spoken English is a concise, to-the-point compendium of information about the casual pronunciation of everyday English as compared to formal citation forms. Concise, to-the-point compendium of information about casual pronunciation of English as compared to citation forms. Covers varieties of English language including General American and Standard Southern British. Overlaps the boundaries of several areas of study including sociolinguistics, lexicography, rhetoric, and speech sciences. Examines English pronunciation as found in everyday speech. Accompanied by website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/shockey featuring examples from different accents. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Linda Shockey (University of Reading)Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.80cm Weight: 0.218kg ISBN: 9780631230809ISBN 10: 0631230807 Pages: 172 Publication Date: 20 December 2002 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList 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.Reviews'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 Author InformationLinda 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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