American English Phonetic Transcription (Paperback, 1)

Symbols for phonemic transcription Phonetic symbols and diacritics The International Phonetic Alphabet Preface and acknowledgments Before you start transcribing… PART A: TRANSCRIBING WORDS 1. The familiar consonants /p b t d k ? f v s z h m n w l r/ and the vowels /? æ ? ? ?/ 2. Primary stress, unstressed schwa /?/, unstressed schwar /?r/ and unstressedKIT /?/ 3. Consonants with unfamiliar symbols /? ? ? ? j ŋ θ ð/ and /t/-tapping 4. TheFLEECE /i/ and theGOOSE /u/ vowels 5. ThePALM /?/,THOUGHT /?/,SPORT /o/, stressed schwa /?r/ vowels, andDRESS /?/ andTRAP /æ/ before /r/ 6. TheFACE /e?/,PRICE /a?/, andCHOICE /??/ vowels 7. TheGOAT /o?/andMOUTH /a?/ vowels 8.FLEECE /i/ andGOOSE /u/ before /r/ 9. Syllabic consonants 10. Secondary stress 11. Inflections and epenthesis PART B: TRANSCRIBING CONNECTED SPEECH 12. Connected speech and liaison 13. Stress and weak forms 14. Elision 15. Assimilation 16. Connected speech ? extended practice PART C: TRANSCRIBING INTONATION 17. Intonation ? an introduction to intonation 18. Intonation ? nucleus and tail 19. Intonation ? head and pre-head 20. Intonation ? extended practice APPENDICES A. Summary of consonant and vowel theory B. Phonetic transcription References and suggested reading Index