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An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology

John W Clark author Janet Fletcher author Collin Yallop author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:4th Dec '06

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This fully revised third edition integrates updated references, new findings, and modern theories, to present readers with the most thorough and complete introduction to phonetics and phonology.

  • Exceptionally thorough, including detailed attention to articulatory and acoustic phonetics as well as to the foundations of phonological analysis
  • Features a number of valuable changes, incorporating new material on the latest findings in speech production studies; greater coverage of prosody, including a major section on autosegmental metrical models; expanded coverage of phonology, including Optimality Theory; and sections on L1 and L2 acquisition, and sociolectal variation
  • Integrates new findings, theories references throughout, offering students the most thorough and complete knowledge of the subject to date
  • Includes 125 figures throughout

“A key general-reference text, which assumes no prior knowledge. In this edition, emphasis is placed on acoustic phonetics and phonological analysis, and it incorporates new material on developments in speech production studies, prosody, optimality theory in phonology, L1 and L2 acquisition and sociolectal variation.” Times Higher Education Supplement

“The third edition of An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology is a welcome update to an introductory volume which for many years has informed and challenged students in equal measures, and will clearly continue to do so.”
Gerry Docherty, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

ISBN: 9781405130837

Dimensions: 246mm x 173mm x 26mm

Weight: 871g

512 pages

3rd edition