English Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish : From Theory to Practice.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Audio Tracks -- List of Abbreviations and Phonetic Symbols -- Purpose and Scope of the Book -- 1 Phonetics and Phonology -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Phonetics -- 1.2.1 Articulatory phonetics -- 1.2.2 Acoustic phonetics -- 1.2.3 Auditory phonetics -- 1.2.4 The interface of the auditory, acoustic and articulatory levels -- 1.3 Phonology -- 1.3.1 Phone, phoneme and allophone -- 1.3.2 Phonological analysis -- 1.3.3 Phonological structure -- 1.3.3.1 The syllable -- 1.3.3.2 Syllabic patterns in English and Spanish and advice -- 1.3.3.3 Syllabic consonants -- 1.4 Phonetic transcription -- 1.4.1 The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) -- 1.4.2 Types of phonetic transcription -- 1.5 Received Pronunciation (RP) and Peninsular Spanish (PSp) -- 1.6 A guide to the phonetic transcription of RP and PSp -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 2 The Production and Classification of Speech Sounds -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The organs of speech -- 2.2.1 The respiratory system and pulmonic sounds -- 2.2.2 The phonatory system, phonation modes and glottalic sounds -- 2.2.3 The articulatory system and velaric sounds -- 2.3 Articulatory features and classification of phonemes -- 2.3.1 Vowels and vowel glides -- 2.3.1.1 Tongue shape -- 2.3.1.2 Lip shape -- 2.3.1.3 The cardinal vowels and the Cardinal Vowel Scale -- 2.3.1.4 Duration and energy of articulation -- 2.3.1.5 Steadiness of articulatory gesture -- 2.3.2 Consonants -- 2.3.2.1 Voicing and energy of articulation -- 2.3.2.2 Place of articulation -- 2.3.2.3 Manner of articulation -- 2.3.2.4 Orality -- 2.3.2.5 Secondary articulation -- 2.4 Acoustic features of speech sounds -- 2.4.1 Vowels -- 2.4.2 Vowel glides -- 2.4.3 Consonants and glide consonants -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 3 Vowels and Vowel Glides -- 3.1 Introduction.

3.2 A comparison of English and Spanish pure vowels -- 3.2.1 Group 1: RP /iː ɪ/ vs. PSp /i/ -- 3.2.2 Group 2: RP /e ɜː ə/ vs. PSp /e/ -- 3.2.3 Group 3: RP /ʌ æ ɑː/ vs. PSp /a/ -- 3.2.4 Group 4: RP /ɔː ɒ/ vs. PSp /o/ -- 3.2.5 Group 5: RP /uː ʊ/ vs. PSp /u/ -- 3.3 A comparison of English and Spanish vowel glides -- 3.3.1 Closing diphthongs -- 3.3.1.1 RP /eɪ aɪ ɔɪ/ vs. PSp /ei̯ ai̯ oi̯/ -- 3.3.1.2 RP /əʊ aʊ/ vs. PSp /eu̯ ou̯ au̯/ -- 3.3.2 Centring diphthongs: RP /ɪə eə ʊə/ -- 3.3.3 Diphthongs + [ə] -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 4 Consonants -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A comparison of English and Spanish consonants -- 4.2.1 Plosives -- 4.2.1.1 Bilabial plosives /p b/ -- 4.2.1.2 Alveolar plosives /t d/ -- 4.2.1.3 Velar plosives /k g/ -- 4.2.2 Fricatives -- 4.2.2.1 Labio-dental fricatives: RP /f v/ vs. PSp /f/ -- 4.2.2.2 Dental fricatives: RP /θ ð/ vs. PSp /θ/ -- 4.2.2.3 Alveolar fricatives: RP /s z/ vs. PSp /s/ -- 4.2.2.4 RP palato-alveolar fricatives /ʃ ʒ/ -- 4.2.2.5 RP glottal fricative /h/ -- 4.2.3 Affricates: RP /tʃ dʒ/ vs. PSp /tʃ/ -- 4.2.4 Nasals: RP /m n ŋ/ vs. PSp /m n ɲ/ -- 4.2.5 Approximants -- 4.2.5.1 Liquids: RP /r l/ vs. PSp /r ɾ l ʎ/ -- 4.2.5.2 Glide consonants /j w/ -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 5 Segment Dynamics: Aspects of Connected Speech -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Co-articulation and allophonic variations of vowels and consonants -- 5.2.1 Length -- 5.2.2 Voicing -- 5.2.3 Lip shape -- 5.2.4 Nasal resonance -- 5.2.5 Aspiration -- 5.2.6 Types of release -- 5.2.7 Place of articulation -- 5.2.8 Lenition and fortition -- 5.2.8.1 Affrication and fricativisation -- 5.2.8.2 Glottaling and glottalisation -- 5.3 Assimilation and phonemic variations -- 5.3.1 Place of articulation -- 5.3.2 Manner of articulation -- 5.3.3 Variations in voicing -- 5.3.4 Coalescent assimilation -- 5.4 Elision -- 5.5 Linking -- 5.6 Juncture -- 5.7 Gradation.

5.7.1 Weak and strong forms -- 5.7.2 Neutralisation of weak forms -- 5.8 Advice to learners -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 6 Beyond the Segment: Stress, Rhythm and Intonation -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Stress and rhythm -- 6.2.1 Stress-timed languages versus syllable-timed languages -- 6.2.2 Word stress -- 6.2.2.1 Levels of stress -- 6.2.2.2 Placement of stress -- 6.2.3 Prosodic stress -- 6.2.3.1 Rhythmical variations -- 6.2.3.2 Usage -- 6.2.3.3 Emphatic and contrastive patterns -- 6.2.4 Nuclear stress -- 6.3 Intonation -- 6.3.1 Intonation groups and tonality -- 6.3.2 Structure of intonation groups and tonicity -- 6.3.3 Intonation patterns and tone -- 6.3.3.1 Simple tones: Falls and rises -- 6.3.3.2 Complex tones: Fall-rises and rise-falls -- 6.3.4 The functions of intonation -- 6.3.4.1 Attitudinal function -- 6.3.4.2 Accentual function -- 6.3.4.3 Grammatical function -- 6.3.4.4 Discourse function -- 6.3.4.5 Illocutionary function -- 6.3.4.6 Other functions -- 6.4 The prosody of English and Spanish compared and advice -- 6.4.1 Stress and rhythm -- 6.4.2 Intonation -- Further reading -- Exercises -- 7 Predicting Pronunciation from Spelling (and Vice Versa) -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Spelling-to-sound correspondences of vowels -- 7.2.1 Stressed vowels -- 7.2.1.1 Syllable division -- 7.2.1.2 The letter &lt -- r&gt -- , and other V sounds: "Heavy" and "r-tense" -- 7.2.1.3 Different V sounds after /w/ -- 7.2.1.4 Lax instead of tense -- 7.2.1.5 Tense instead of lax -- 7.2.1.6 Lax vs. heavy -- 7.2.1.7 Digraphs -- 7.2.2 Unstressed vowels -- 7.2.3 Silent V letters -- 7.3 Spelling-to-sound correspondences of consonants -- 7.3.1 Voicing and "silent" C letters -- 7.3.1.1 Voicing -- 7.3.1.2 Silent C letters -- 7.3.2 Summary -- 7.3.3 Other details of pronunciation -- 7.4 Sound-to-spelling correspondences -- 7.4.1 Vowels -- 7.4.2 Consonants -- Further reading.

Exercises -- Further Exercises: Passages for Phonemic Transcription -- Answer key -- Exercises Chapters 1 to 7 -- Further exercises: Passages for Phonemic Transcription -- References -- Subject Index.

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