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List of Sound Recordings | |
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Prefaces to the First Edition | |
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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Figure 1 The organs of speech | |
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Figure 2 The International Phonetic Alphabet | |
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English Phonetics: Consonants (i) | |
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Airstream and Articulation | |
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Place of Articulation | |
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Manner of Articulation: Stops, Fricatives and Approximants | |
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Exercises | |
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English Phonetics: Consonants (ii) | |
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Central vs Lateral | |
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Taps and Trills | |
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Secondary Articulation | |
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Affricates | |
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Aspiration | |
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Nasal Stops | |
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Exercises | |
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English Phonetics: Vowels (i) | |
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The Primary Cardinal Vowels | |
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RP and GA Short Vowels | |
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Exercises | |
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English Phonetics: Vowels (ii) | |
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RP and GA Long Vowels | |
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RP and GA Diphthongs | |
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Exercises | |
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The Phonemic Principle | |
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Introduction: Linguistic Knowledge | |
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Contrast vs Predictability: The Phoneme | |
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Phonemes, Allophones and Contexts | |
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Summing Up | |
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Exercises | |
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English Phonemes | |
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English Consonant Phonemes | |
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The Phonological Form of Morphemes | |
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English Vowel Phonemes | |
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Exercises | |
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English Syllable Structure | |
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Introduction | |
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Constituency in Syllable Structure | |
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The Sonority Hierarchy, Maximal Onset and Syllable Weight | |
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Language-Specific Phonotactics | |
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Syllabic Consonants and Phonotactics | |
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Syllable-Based Generalizations | |
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Morphological Structure, Syllable Structure and Resyllabification | |
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Summing Up | |
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Exercises | |
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Rhythm and Word Stress in English | |
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The Rhythm of English | |
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English Word Stress: Is It Entirely Random? | |
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English Word Stress: Some General Principles | |
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Word Stress Assignment in Morphologically Simple Words | |
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Word Stress Assignment and Morphological Structure | |
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Compound Words | |
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Summing Up | |
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Exercises | |
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Rhythm, Reversal and Reduction | |
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More on the Trochaic Metrical Foot | |
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Representing Metrical Structure | |
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Phonological Generalizations and Foot Structure | |
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The Rhythm of English Again: Stress Timing and Eurhythmy | |
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Exercises | |
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English Intonation | |
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Tonic Syllables, Tones and Intonation Phrases | |
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Departures from the LLI Rule | |
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IPs and Syntactic Units | |
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Tonic Placement, IP Boundaries and Syntax | |
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Tones and Syntax | |
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Tonic Placement and Discourse Context | |
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Summing Up | |
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Exercises | |
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Graphophonemics: Spelling-Pronunciation Relations | |
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Introduction | |
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Vowel Graphemes and Their Phonemic Values | |
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Consonant Graphemes and Their Phonemic Values | |
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Exercises | |
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Variation in English Accents | |
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Introduction | |
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Systemic vs Realizational Differences between Accents | |
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Perceptual and Articulatory Space | |
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Differences in the Lexical Distribution of Phonemes | |
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Exercises | |
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An Outline of Some Accents of English | |
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Some British Accents | |
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Two American Accents | |
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Two Southern Hemisphere Accents | |
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An Overview of Some Common Phenomena Found in Accent Variation | |
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Exercises | |
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Suggested Further Reading | |
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Index | |