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A course in phonetics /

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This is a course in phonetics, not a book about phonetics. It is intended to be useful to both students of linguistics and to those who are more concerned with studying the sounds of English.... As this is an introductory textbook, many of the ideas presented here are not new. -Pref.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ladefoged, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, [1993]
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Phonetics.
English language > Phonetics.
English language > Phonetics
Table of Contents:
  • Articulatory phonetics
  • Phonology and phonetic transcription
  • Consonants of English
  • English vowels and phonological rules
  • English words and sentences
  • Airstream mechanisms and phonation types
  • Place and manner of articulation
  • Acoustic phonetics
  • Vowels and vowel-like articulations
  • Syllables and suprasegmental features
  • Linguistic phonetics
  • Glossary.