The Pronunciation of English: Course Book in Phonology - Hardcover

Intended principally for teachers of English, this book researches into the phonology of English. It deals with varieties of English, consonants, vowels, syllable structure, allophonic variation, phonotactic constraints, the rhythm, intonation and mobile accent of utterances, placement of stress in words, the effects of rapid, casual speech on pronunciation and the morpheme variation which results from historic phonological processes. The chapter on vowels presents a "general inventory" and various "particular inventories" as a means of dealing with the tricky matter of dialect differences in vowel systems. The chapter on phonotactics explains, in particular, the different forms of the regular plural ending of nouns. It presents British English, American and other varients of pronunciation and has exercises built into the text, with answers and discussions. The author's previous book is "The Dynamics of Language".