McConville, Mike.

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.

9781474411783


English language-Phonetics.


Electronic books.

PE1135.O34 2017

421.58