An Introduction to English Phonetics.
- 2nd ed.
- 1 online resource (238 pages)
- Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities Series .
- Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities Series .
Intro -- An Introduction to English Phonetics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- To readers -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction to phonetics -- 2 Overview of the human speech mechanism -- 3 Representing the sounds of speech -- 4 The larynx, voicing and voice quality -- 5 Vowels -- 6 Approximants -- 7 Plosives -- 8 Fricatives -- 9 Nasals -- 10 Glottalic and velaric airstreams -- 11 Sounds and structures -- 12 Conclusion -- Glossary -- Discussion of the exercises -- Further reading -- Index.
Introduces students to legalistic, theoretical, empirical, comparative and cross-disciplinary research methods, grounded in working examples.