Systems For The Phonetic Transcription Of English

Author : Rafael Monroy Casas
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 303430059X

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Systems for the Phonetic Transcription of English by Rafael Monroy Casas Pdf

This book covers in a systematic way the main systems of phonetic transcription currently used for English. Unlike other texts in the market, which focus on just one type of transcriptional model, the book provides theoretical information and full practice for all systems.<BR> The material is divided into seven sections headed by a lengthy introduction to the history and development of the International Phonetic Alphabet. A set of eighteen samples from real contemporary colloquial English (British English), graded in terms of difficulty, follows. The accent chosen is the one known as RP or BBC English, with some minor concession to other regional varieties which do not stray dramatically from RP. Different models of representation are used under three main transcription systems: qualitative, quantitative and mixed. By using an identical set of texts in ordinary spelling for each system, the reader can constantly check different ways of transcribing a word or an utterance depending on the model used.

Author : Charles James Nice Bailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : English language
ISBN : UCAL:B4320797

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English Phonetic Transcription by Charles James Nice Bailey Pdf

A manual for investigators, teachers of English phonetics and theoreticians. The focus is on transcriptional procedures with an original emphasis on Southern British pronunciation, but since adapted this to the needs of a broader readership.

Author : Paul Carley,Inger M. Mees
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000382112

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British English Phonetic Transcription by Paul Carley,Inger M. Mees Pdf

British English Phonetic Transcription provides an accessible introduction to phonemic, phonetic and intonational transcription with a focus on British English. Featuring exercises, revision tasks and recordings to help students gain hands-on practice, the book takes a learning-by-doing approach and ensures students gain practice using each new symbol or concept introduced before moving on to the next. Consisting of three parts, the book covers: transcribing individual words, including consonants, vowels, primary stress, secondary stress, syllabic consonants and inflections; transcribing phrases and sentences, including liaison, weak forms, elision and assimilation; transcribing intonation, including the structure of English intonation and recognising pitch patterns. Ideally suited as a standalone workbook or for use alongside American English Phonetic Transcription, British English Phonetic Transcription is key reading for undergraduate students of linguistics as well as anyone teaching or learning English as a foreign language.

Author : Felicity Cox,Janet Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316639269

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Australian English Pronunciation and Transcription by Felicity Cox,Janet Fletcher Pdf

Australian English Pronunciation and Transcription is an essential resource, giving instruction in both phonetic and phonemic transcription.

Author : Paul Tench
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139497084

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Transcribing the Sound of English by Paul Tench Pdf

Do you have a fear of transcription? Are you daunted by the prospect of learning and handling unfamiliar symbols? This workbook is for students who are new to linguistics and phonetics, and offers a didactic approach to the study and transcription of the words, rhythm and intonation of English. It can be used independently or in class and covers all the pronunciation details of words, phrases, rhythm and intonation. Progress is deliberately gentle with plenty of explanations, examples and 'can't go wrong' exercises. In addition, there is an associated website with audio recordings of authentic speech, which provide back-up throughout. The audio clips also introduce students to variations in accents, with eleven different speakers. Going beyond the transcription of words, the book also ventures into real discourse with the simplification systems of colloquial English speech, rhythm and intonation.

Author : Andrzej Porzuczek,Konrad Szcześniak
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527544123

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Transcription Practice for the International Phonetic Alphabet by Andrzej Porzuczek,Konrad Szcześniak Pdf

This book will serve to help learners transcribe the sounds of English by means of the International Phonetic Alphabet and use phonetic transcriptions of words in dictionaries. It will be of special interest to university students of linguistics and phonetics, since transcription skills will give them a clearer, more systematic picture of English pronunciation and spelling. Because the book assumes no prior knowledge of phonetics, it can be used by anyone looking to improve their pronunciation. In this regard, it will benefit especially those readers who speak English as a foreign language. They will find a rich collection of exercises focusing on a variety of pronunciation phenomena. These exercises feature common fixed expressions such as spitting image; thus, in addition to learning to use the transcription alphabet, learners can also enrich their vocabularies. This handbook is designed for work in the classroom, but thanks to its presentation of solutions and explanations of relevant problems, it can also be used in individual study.

Author : Jürgen Handke, Peter Franke
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Internet in education
ISBN : 9783830966890

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The Virtual Linguistics Campus by Jürgen Handke, Peter Franke Pdf

Author : Greg Brooks
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783741076

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Dictionary of the British English Spelling System by Greg Brooks Pdf

This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It's a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly useful to those wishing to produce well-designed materials for teaching initial literacy via phonics, for teaching English as a foreign or second language, and for teacher training. English spelling is notoriously complicated and difficult to learn; it is correctly described as much less regular and predictable than any other alphabetic orthography. However, there is more regularity in the English spelling system than is generally appreciated. This book provides, for the first time, a thorough account of the whole complex system. It does so by describing how phonemes relate to graphemes and vice versa. It enables searches for particular words, so that one can easily find, not the meanings or pronunciations of words, but the other words with which those with unusual phoneme-grapheme/grapheme-phoneme correspondences keep company. Other unique features of this book include teacher-friendly lists of correspondences and various regularities not described by previous authorities, for example the strong tendency for the letter-name vowel phonemes (the names of the letters ) to be spelt with those single letters in non-final syllables.

Author : Pekka Lintunen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English language
ISBN : UCAL:B4899902

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Pronunciation and Phonemic Transcription by Pekka Lintunen Pdf

Author : John Laver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052145655X

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Principles of Phonetics by John Laver Pdf

Comprehensive textbook on phonetics, with examples from over 500 languages.

Author : Paul Carley,Inger M. Mees
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000392692

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American English Phonetic Transcription by Paul Carley,Inger M. Mees Pdf

American English Phonetic Transcription provides an accessible introduction to phonemic, phonetic, and intonational transcription with a focus on American English. Featuring exercises, revision tasks, and recordings to help students gain hands-on practice, the book takes a learning-by-doing approach and ensures students gain practice using each new symbol or concept introduced before moving on to the next. Consisting of three parts, the book covers: transcribing individual words, including consonants, vowels, primary stress, secondary stress, syllabic consonants, and inflections; transcribing phrases and sentences, including weak forms, elision, and assimilation; transcribing intonation, including the structure of English intonation and recognizing pitch patterns. Ideally suited as a standalone workbook or for use alongside British English Phonetic Transcription, American English Phonetic Transcription is key reading for undergraduate students of linguistics as well as anyone teaching or learning English as a foreign language.

Author : International Phonetic Association
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521637511

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Handbook of the International Phonetic Association by International Phonetic Association Pdf

An essential, comprehensive guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet, for phoneticians and others concerned with speech.

Author : R.L. Trask
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134884209

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A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics by R.L. Trask Pdf

This dictionary of grammatical terms covers both current and traditional terminology in syntax and morphology. It includes descriptive terms, the major theoretical concepts of the most influential grammatical frameworks, and the chief terms from mathematical and computational linguistics. It contains over 1500 entries, providing definitions and examples, pronunciations, the earliest sources of terms and suggestions for further reading, and recommendations about competing and conflicting usages. The book focuses on non-theory-boumd descriptive terms, which are likely to remain current for some years. Aimed at students and teachers of linguistics, it allows a reader puzzled by a grammatical term to look it up and locate further reading with ease.

Author : Barry Heselwood
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748691012

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Phonetic Transcription in Theory and Practice by Barry Heselwood Pdf

Phonetic transcription is a key element in many kinds of written works, not least linguistics books, dictionaries, language-teaching texts and bilingual reference works. This book is the first book-length scholarly monograph to address all of the important aspects of phonetic transcription.The aim of phonetic transcription is to represent the sounds of speech on paper. This book reviews contemporary uses of phonetic transcription in dictionaries, language teaching texts, phonetic and phonological studies, dialectology and sociolinguistics, speech pathology and therapy, and forensic phonetics. Heselwood surveys the history of attempts to represent speech, considering the relationship of transcription to written language. The book also includes a thorough analysis of the many different kinds of phonetic transcription - broad, narrow, auditory, systematic, segmental, suprasegmental, parametric and others - addressing what exactly is represented in different kinds and levels of transcription.Different ways in which transcription can be used alongside modern instrumental records of speech are illustrated with the claim that transcription embodies a kind of knowledge about speech unavailable to instruments - knowledge gained from the experience of listening to it in a phonetically informed manner. The author grounds this claim in the philosophy of phenomenalism, countering arguments against auditory transcription that have been advanced by experimental phoneticians for reasons of empirical inadequacy, and by linguistic rationalists who say it is irrelevant for understanding the supposedly innate categories that are said to underlie speech. A glossary of terms is included, along with a series of examples to demonstrate the comparison, classification and interpretation of phonetic transcriptions for different purposes.

Author : P. Sanderson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781483137728

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English Consonant Clusters by P. Sanderson Pdf

English Consonant Clusters focuses on the phonetic transcription, stress, and tone of English consonants and consonant clusters. The topics discussed include the phonetic alphabets; intrusive consonant; teaching consonants; study of textbook practice; pursuit of the phoneme; individual consonant studies; weak consonants; and English consonant clusters. In order to fully make use of this book, readers are expected to possess basic knowledge of one or two systems of phonetic transcription, phonemes of English, stress, tone, and other phonetic matters. This publication is intended for English teachers in order to gain knowledge of modern methods of teaching the language, but is also useful to students conducting research in linguistic studies.