Practical Phonetics and Phonology A Resource Book for Students

Practical Phonetics and Phonology : *covers speech production, classification of vowels and consonants, phoneme, syllable structure, features of connected speech, stress and intonation *includes discussion of regional and social accent variation, language change, application of phonetics to language teaching and learning *provides classic readings: Ladefoged, Abercrombie, Fry, Crystal, Pinker and Jones *includes a free accompanying audio CD with samples of genuine speakers of twenty accent varieties from Britain, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Singapore and West Africa. Visit the accompanying website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415261341Practical Phonetics and Phonology A Resource Book for Students, with ISBN 9780415261340 and ISBN 0415261341.