Roach, Peter

English phonetics and phonology : a practical course / Peter Roach. - Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983. - x, 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents;

1. Introduction
2. The production of speech sounds
3. Long vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs
4. Voicing and consonants
5. The phoneme
6. Fricatives and affricates
7. Nasals and other consonants
8. Further phonology: Symbols and syllables
9. Strong and weak syllables
10. Stress in simple words

11. Complex word stress
12. Weak forms
13. Problems in phonemic analysis
14. Aspects of connected speech
15. Intonation 1
16. Intonation 2
17. Intonation 3
18. Functions of intonation 1
19. Functions of intonation 2
20. Further areas of study in phonetics and phonology



Bibliography : p. 204-207 . _ Index : p. 209-212.

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English language--Phonetics.
English language--Phonology.
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

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