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This revised second edition provides an introduction to the phonetics and phonology of English. It incorporates all central aspects of research in the phonology of English and involves the reader at every step, with over 80 exercises leading students to discover facts, to formulate general statements, and to apply concepts.

Discusses the nature of speech and phonetic description, the principles of phonological analysis, the consonants and vowels of English and their possible sequences.
Provides extensive treatment of rhythm, stress, and intonation and the role of these prosodic elements in discourse.
Includes more than 80 exercises with feedback and glossary of technical terms.
Incorporates developments in phonology since the first edition appeared.

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• Preface to the Second Edition(p. xiv)
• About this Book(p. xv)
• 1 Language and Speech(p. 1)
• 1.1 Language variation(p. 1)
• 1.2 A very brief history of the English language(p. 2)
• 1.3 Speech and language(p. 4)
• 1.4 Phonological analysis(p. 9)
• 1.5 Summary(p. 11)
• Notes(p. 12)
• 2 Sound ... and Voice(p. 13)
• 2.1 Hearing(p. 13)
• 2.2 Energy, vibration, and medium(p. 14)
• 2.3 The measurement of vibrations(p. 15)
• 2.4 Resonance(p. 17)
• 2.5 Air in motion(p. 18)
• 2.6 The human voice(p. 18)
• 2.7 The vocal cords(p. 20)
• 2.8 The vocal tract(p. 21)
• 2.9 Kinds of speech sounds(p. 22)
• 2.10 Summary(p. 26)
• 2.11 Addendum: a note on redundancy(p. 28)
• Notes(p. 29)
• 3 Consonants(p. 30)
• 3.1 The feature [consonantal](p. 32)
• 3.2 Lip consonants (labials)(p. 34)
• 3.3 Tongue-tip consonants (apicals)(p. 36)
• 3.4 Tongue-front consonants (laminals)(p. 36)
• 3.5 Tongue-back consonants (dorsals)(p. 37)
• 3.6 Summary chart(p. 37)
• 3.7 Articulators or points of articulation?(p. 38)
• 3.8 The feature [lateral](p. 39)
• 3.9 Summary(p. 40)
• Notes(p. 43)
• 4 Vowels and Glides(p. 45)
• 4.1 Dialect differences(p. 46)
• 4.2 Vowel features(p. 48)
• 4.3 A general inventory and particular inventories(p. 49)
• 4.4 Phonetic descriptions(p. 51)
• 4.5 The vowel inventories of specific dialects(p. 57)
• 4.6 The incidence of vowels(p. 58)
• 4.7 The glides(p. 62)
• 4.8 Summary(p. 63)
• Notes(p. 67)
• 5 Syllables and Stress(p. 68)
• 5.1 Syllables(p. 68)
• 5.2 Syllable structure(p. 71)
• 5.3 Strong and weak syllables(p. 74)
• 5.4 Syllable division(p. 76)
• 5.5 Suffixes and stress(p. 79)
• 5.6 Compounds and some other words(p. 79)
• 5.7 Identifying the vowels of weak syllables(p. 82)
• 5.8 Syllabic consonants(p. 84)
• 5.9 Summary(p. 85)
• Notes(p. 87)
• 6 Phonotactics(p. 88)
• 6.1 Word-initial position(p. 88)
• 6.2 A note regarding /j/(p. 92)
• 6.3 Contrast and variation(p. 92)
• 6.4 Word-final position(p. 93)
• 6.5 Word-medial position(p. 96)
• 6.6 Borrowed words(p. 100)
• 6.7 Omission and insertion of a consonant(p. 100)
• 6.8 Limits on vowel occurrences(p. 101)
• 6.9 Free vowels and checked vowels(p. 103)
• 6.10 Functional loads(p. 105)
• 6.11 Summary(p. 105)
• Notes(p. 107)
• 7 Consonant and Vowel Variation(p. 108)
• 7.1 Variation in point of articulation(p. 109)
• 7.2 An example of mutual assimilation(p. 112)
• 7.3 Variation in lip shape(p. 113)
• 7.4 Variation in nasality(p. 113)
• 7.5 Variation in onset and release(p. 113)
• 7.6 Variation in length(p. 116)
• 7.7 Multiple variation for /t/(p. 117)
• 7.8 Some questions of perception(p. 120)
• 7.9 Summary(p. 120)
• Notes(p. 123)
• 8 Some Consequences of Phonotactics(p. 124)
• 8.1 Consonant clusters and some grammatical suffixes(p. 124)
• 8.2 Morpheme variation(p. 129)
• 8.3 Differences in morpheme division(p. 133)
• 8.4 Summary(p. 137)
• Notes(p. 139)
• 9 The Rhythm of English Speech(p. 140)
• 9.1 Prosody(p. 140)
• 9.2 Tone units(p. 143)
• 9.3 Stress timing(p. 144)
• 9.4 Marked accent: paradigmatic focus(p. 146)
• 9.5 Marked accent: syntagmatic focus(p. 148)
• 9.6 A note on 'too' and 'either'(p. 151)
• 9.7 De-accenting: anaphoric words(p. 152)
• 9.8 Lexical anaphora(p. 154)
• 9.9 De-accenting to embed an additional message(p. 156)
• 9.10 Accent on operators(p. 157)
• 9.11 Summary(p. 159)
• Notes(p. 161)
• 10 Intonation(p. 163)
• 10.1 Intonation and perception(p. 163)
• 10.2 The falling tunes(p. 166)
• 10.3 The rising tunes(p. 167)
• 10.4 Comparisons(p. 168)
• 10.5 Compound tunes(p. 171)
• 10.6 Summary(p. 175)
• Notes(p. 178)
• 11 Predicting Word Stress(p. 179)
• 11.1 Is stress predictable?(p. 179)
• 11.2 Stress rules(p. 180)
• 11.3 Neutral suffixes(p. 182)
• 11.4 Tonic endings(p. 182)
• 11.5 The basic stress rule for verbs(p. 182)
• 11.6 The basic stress rule for nouns(p. 184)
• 11.7 Rules for adjectives(p. 186)
• 11.8 Extending the basic stress rules(p. 188)
• 11.9 Some variations in stress(p. 189)
• 11.10 Mixed endings(p. 190)
• 11.11 Some 'special' endings(p. 191)
• 11.12 Summary(p. 196)
• Notes(p. 199)
• 12 Prefixes, Compound Words, and Phrases(p. 200)
• 12.1 Compounds(p. 200)
• 12.2 Compounds and phrases(p. 203)
• 12.3 Compound verbs(p. 206)
• 12.4 Prefixes(p. 209)
• 12.5 Greek-type compounds(p. 215)
• 12.6 A rhythm rule(p. 217)
• 12.7 Summary(p. 219)
• Notes(p. 222)
• 13 Phonological Processes in Speech(p. 223)
• 13.1 Full forms and reduced forms(p. 223)
• 13.2 More about phonological processes(p. 234)
• 13.3 Summary(p. 239)
• Notes(p. 241)
• 14 Phonological Processes and the Lexicon(p. 242)
• 14.1 Words and morphemes that change(p. 242)
• 14.2 Underlying forms and lexical processes(p. 245)
• 14.3 Checked vowel reduction(p. 246)
• 14.4 Palatalization(p. 247)
• 14.5 Alternation with zero(p. 249)
• 14.6 Spirantization(p. 251)
• 14.7 Velar softening(p. 253)
• 14.8 The sequence of rules(p. 254)
• 14.9 Change in voice(p. 256)
• 14.10 The vowel shift rule(p. 257)
• 14.11 Free and checked vowels(p. 260)
• 14.12 More about augments(p. 264)
• 14.13 Applications(p. 265)
• 14.14 Summary(p. 266)
• Notes(p. 272)
• Appendix A List of Word-endings and their Effects on Stress(p. 273)
• 1 Neutral suffixes(p. 273)
• 2 Tonic endings(p. 275)
• 3 Heavy endings(p. 275)
• 4 Light endings(p. 277)
• 5 Posttonic suffixes(p. 279)
• 6 Some special suffixes(p. 279)
• Glossary of Technical Terms(p. 284)
• Bibliography(p. 296)
• Index(p. 303)

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