Studies in General and English Phonetics: Essays in Honour of Professor J.D. O'Connor

by Jack Windsor Lewis (Editor)

Overview

Rhythm, intonation, exotic and familiar languages as well as computer-sythesized audio-communications, procedures in forensic linguistics, pronunciation lexicography, language change and sociological aspects of speech such as English regional accents and dialects in Britain and other parts of the world are covered in these thirty-eight articles in tribute to Professor J.D. O'Connor by an international list of contributors, including many world famous names. With an invaluable up-to-date bibliography, no university library will be complete without it.

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ISBN-13:	9781134894284
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/21/2012
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Pages:	496
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About the Author

Jack Windsor Lewis

Table of Contents

I: General Phonetics and Phonological Theory; 1: On some neutralisations and archiphonemes in English allegro speech; 2: The phonetics of neutralisation; 3: Some articulatory characteristics of the tap; 4: Assimilations of alveolar stops and nasals in connected speech; 5: Field procedures in forensic speaker recognition; 6: Voice types in automated telecommunications applications; 7: The effect of context on the transcription of vowel quality; 8: Place of articulation features for clicks; 9: Postura; II: Pitch, Intonation and Rhythm; 10: Spelling aloud; 11: Rises in English; 12: Documenting rhythmical change; 13: The social distribution of intonation patterns in Belfast; 14: Principles of intonational typology; 15: Intonational stereotype; 16: Speech fundamental frequency over the telephone and face-to-face; 17: The effect of emphasis on declination in English intonation; 18: Nucleus placement in English and Spanish; 19: Rhythm and duration in Spanish; 20: The boundaries of intonation units; 21: Stylisation of the falling tone in Hungarian intonation; 22: The teaching of English intonation; III: The Phonetics of Mother-Tongue English; 23: A ‘tenny' rate; 24: Pronunciation and the rich points of culture; 25: Spelling pronunciation and related matters in New Zealand English; 26: Quantifying English homophones and minimal pairs; 27: Consonant-associated resonance in three varieties of English; 28: Syllabification and rhythm in non-segmental phonology; 29: The vowels of Scottish English – formants and features; 30: A neglected feature of British East Midlands accents and its possible implications for the history of a vowel merger in English; 31: Mixing and fudging in Midland and Southern dialects of England; 32: The low vowels of Vancouver English; 33: New syllabic consonants in English; IV: The Phonetics of Non-Mother-Tongue English; 34: Approaches to articulatory setting in foreign-language teaching; 35: The English accent of the Shilluk speaker; 36: Segmental errors in the pronunciation of Danish speakers of English; 37: Describing the pronunciation of loanwords from English; 38: What do EFL teachers need to know about pronunciation?

Editorial Reviews

'In summary, then, this is the kind of book which has something for everyone and lives up to the expectations raised by it sister volume.' - English Language & Linguistics, Vol 2. No. 1. 1998

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