Fundamentals of Phonetics - Larry H. Small

Fundamentals of Phonetics

A Practical Guide for Students: United States Edition

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Buch | Softcover
384 Seiten
2004 | 2nd edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-205-41912-8 (ISBN)
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Designed to help instructors provide their students with topics and theories related to linguistic phonetics and phonetic transcription, this practical book emphasizes issues tied to linguistic phonetics with an introduction to clinical phonetics, and issues involving dialectal variation of speech.
The new edition of Small's Fundamentals of Phonetics offers a refreshingly unique and thorough practice-based approach to learning the skills necessary for expert phonetic transcription of individuals with disordered speech. Emphasis is placed on the issues tied to linguisitic phonetics with an introduction to clinical phonetics, and issues involving dialectal variation of speech. The available audio CD enables readers to listen to examples and absorb additional information. This new edition offers more transcription exercises with examples of children with disordered speech, Arabic Influenced English and Russian Influenced English.

Most chapters conclude with “Review Exercises,” “Study Questions, ” and “Assignments.”

1. Phonetics: A “Sound” Science. Variation in Phonetic Practice.


2. The Phonetic Representation of English.


The Difference between Spelling and Sound.



Morphemes.



Phonemes.



Distinctive Features.



Allophones: Members of a Phoneme Family.



Systematic versus Impressionistic Transcription.



Syllables.



Word Stress.



3. Anatomy of the Speech Mechanism.


The Respiratory System and Respiration.



The Laryngeal System and Phonation.



The Supralaryngeal System and Articulation.



The Vocal Tract and Resonance.



4. Vowel Transcription.


What Is a Vowel?



The English Vowels.



5. Consonant Transcription.


What Is a Consonant?



Vowels versus Consonants.



Manner, Place, and Voicing.



The English Consonants.



6. Connected Speech.


Assimilation.



The Suprasegmental Aspects of Speech.



7. Clinical Phonetics.


Overview of the Clinical Process.



Typical Phonological Development.



Phonological Processes.



Children with Phonological Disorders.



Allophonic Transcription of Speech.



Placement of Diacritics in Transcription.



The extIPA.



Suggestions for Transcription.



8. Dialectial Variation.


Regional Dialects.



Southern American English.



Eastern American English.



Social Dialects.



African American Vernacular English.



Learning English as a Second Language.



Spanish-Influenced English.



Asian/Pacific-Influenced English.



Phonological Interferences: Russian and Arabic Speakers.



References.


Answers to Questions.


Glossary.


Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.8.2004
Sprache englisch
Maße 276 x 211 mm
Gewicht 792 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-205-41912-7 / 0205419127
ISBN-13 978-0-205-41912-8 / 9780205419128
Zustand Neuware
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