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Sound Patterns of Spoken English

Linda Shockey author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:20th Dec '02

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Sound Patterns of Spoken English is a concise, to-the-point compendium of information about the casual pronunciation of everyday English as compared to formal citation forms.

  • Concise, to-the-point compendium of information about casual pronunciation of English as compared to citation forms.
  • Covers varieties of English language including General American and Standard Southern British.
  • Overlaps the boundaries of several areas of study including sociolinguistics, lexicography, rhetoric, and speech sciences.
  • Examines English pronunciation as found in everyday speech.
  • Accompanied by website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/shockey featuring examples from different accents.

"…the detailed information that is densely packed into this quite short text will be appreciated by many phoneticians, who will find it an exceptionally useful summary of the processes that affect conversational speech and the contexts under which they are most likely to occur." (Journal of the International Phonetic Association)

ISBN: 9780631230793

Dimensions: 224mm x 142mm x 18mm

Weight: 308g

168 pages