Applied English Phonology (Paperback, 4 ed)

Preface to Fourth Edition

Note to the Instructor

Chapter 1 Phonetics

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Phonetic Transcription

1.3 Description and Articulation of Sounds of English

1.3.1 The vocal tract

1.3.2 Voicing

1.3.3 Places of articulation

1.3.4 Manners of articulation

1.3.5 Voice onset time

1.3.6 Vowels and diphthongs

1.4 Additional Sounds

1.4.1 States of the glottis

1.4.2 Places and manners of articulation

1.4.3 Secondary articulations

1.4.4 Consonants made with non-pulmonic airstream mechanisms

1.4.5 Vowels

1.5 Cardinal Vowels

1.6 Syllables and Suprasegmentals

Summary

Exercises

Chapter 2 Phonology

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Complementary versus Overlapping Distribution

2.2.1 Overlapping distribution and contrast

2.2.2 Complementary distribution

2.3 Phonemic Analysis: A Mini-demo

2.4 Free Variation

2.5 Morphophonology

2.6 Practical Uses of Phonological Analysis

Summary

Exercises

Chapter 3 English Consonants

3.1 Stops

3.2 Fricatives

3.3 Affricates

3.4 Nasals

3.5 Approximants

3.6 Sociophonetic Variation

Summary

Exercises

Chapter 4 English Vowels

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Vowel Set of American English

4.2.1 Phonetic properties of vowels

4.2.2 Tense–lax

4.2.3 Nasalized vowels

4.2.4 Length

4.2.5 Vowels before /@/

4.2.6 Vowels before /l/

4.3 Front Vowels

4.4 Central Vowels

4.5 Back Vowels

4.6 Diphthongs

4.7 Sociophonetic Variation

4.8 Non-US Varieties

4.9 Full Vowels–Reduced Vowels

4.10 Full (Strong) Forms versus Reduced (Weak) Forms of Function Words

Summary

Exercises

Chapter 5 Acoustics of Vowels and Consonants

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Spectrographic analysis

5.3 Vowels and Diphthongs

5.4 Consonants

5.4.1 Obstruents

Stops

Fricatives

Affricates

5.4.2 Sonorants

Approximants

Nasals

5.5 Putting It Together

5.6. Waveform Analysis

5.7 Context

5.8 Practical Applications: Some Examples

Summary

Appendix

Exercises

Chapter 6 Syllables

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Number of Syllables

6.3 Sonority

6.4 Syllabification

6.5 English Syllable Phonotactics

6.5.1 Single onsets

6.5.2 Double onsets

6.5.3 Triple onsets

6.5.4 Codas

6.5.5 Double codas

6.5.6 Triple codas

6.6 Written Syllabification

6.7 Syllable Weight and Ambisyllabicity

6.8 Practical Applications

Summary

Exercises

Chapter 7 Stress and Intonation

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Noun and Adjective Stress

7.3 Verb Stress

7.4 Secondary Stress

7.5 Affixes

7.5.1 Stress-bearing (attracting) suffixes

7.5.2 Stress-neutral suffixes

7.5.3 Stress-shifting (fixing) suffixes

7.6 Stress in Compounds

7.7 Differences between American and British English

7.8 Intonation

7.9 Variations among the Varieties

Summary

Exercises

Chapter 8. Phonology of L1

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Pre-linguistic stage

8.3 Babbling to the first words

8.4 First 50 words

8.5 Systematic development and patterns of erroneous productions

8.5.1 Syllable structure processes

8.5.2 Substitution processes

8.5.3 Assimilation processes

8.5.4 Co-occurrence of processes

8.5.5 Chronology of processes

8.6 Optimality Theory

8.7 Implications for clinical treatment

Summary

Exercises

Chapter 9 Structural Factors in Second Language Phonology

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Spanish-English Mini Contrastive Analysis

9.3 Differential Treatment of Mismatches

 9.3.1 Basic vs. derived context

9.3.2 Deflected contrast

9.3.3 Hypercontrast

9.4 Markedness

9.5 Ontogeny Phylogeny Model (OPM)

9.6 Optimality Theory (OT)

9.7 Perception

9.8 Bilingual Phonology

9.9 Loan Phonology

Summary

Appendix

Exercises

Chapter 10 Spelling and Pronunciation

10.1 Irregularity of English Spelling

10.2 Phoneme–Grapheme Correspondences in English

10.2.1 Consonants

10.2.2 Vowels

10.3 Morphological Basis of English Spelling

10.4 American English vs. British English

Summary

Exercises

Recommended Readings

Appendix: List of Sound Files

Glossary

References

Index