Sound Patterns of Spoken English

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. The book examines changes that occur to certain sounds and in certain parts of words and syllables in the casual, unmonitored speech of native English speakers. It outlines major phonological processes found in conversational English; reviews and criticizes attempts to include these processes in phonological theory; and surveys experimental approaches to explaining casual English pronunciation. Among the varieties of English covered are General American and Standard Southern British, but many other accents are mentioned, especially those of mainland Britain. Sound Patterns of Spoken English is of interest to students and scholars in a wide variety of fields, including sociolinguistics, lexicography, rhetoric, language learning and speech sciences, and has an accompanying website - http://www. blackwellpublishing. com/shockey - with examples from different accents.

ISBN 0631230807   Pages 168 ISBN13 9780631230809 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 214 Imprint Blackwell Publishers   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Height (mm) 215 Publication date 20 Dec 2002   Width (mm) 142 Library of Congress 2002007301   Spine width (mm) 11 DEWEY 421.52   Academic level Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC21

		List of Figures and Tables
		Preface
1		Setting the Stage		1
1.1		Phonetics or Phonology?		3
1.2		Fast Speech?		11
2		Processes in Conversational English		14
2.1		The Vulnerability Hierarchy		14
2.2		Reduction Processes in English		19
2.3		Stress as a Conditioning Factor		20
2.4		Syllabic Conditioning Factors		32
2.5		Other Processes		42
2.6		Icons		46
2.7		Weak Forms?		46
2.8		Combinations of these Processes		48
3		Attempts at Phonological Explanation		49
3.1		Past Work on Conversational Phonology		49
3.2		Natural Phonology		52
3.3		Variable Rules		53
3.4		More on Rule Order		54
3.5		Attempts in the 1990s		56
3.6		And into the New Millennium		67
4		Experimental Studies in Casual Speech		72
4.1		Production of Casual Speech		72
4.2		Perception of Casual Speech		89
5		Applications		111
5.1		Phonology		111
5.2		First and Second Language Acquisition		117
5.3		Interacting with Computers		124
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'This is an excellent book that gives a true account of what English speech is really like.' Gerry Knowles, University of Lancaster 'Linda Shockey addresses questions of interest to nearly every phonetician and phonologist, providing extensive examples of attested conversational reductions in numerous dialects of English. By presenting the reductions along with their linguistic conditioning factors, she strikes a forceful blow against the belief that casual speech is simply sloppy speech. Sound Patterns of Spoken English will be of interest to theoretical phonologists and experimental phoneticians, as well as researchers in speech perception, language acquisition and speech technology.' Lisa Lavoie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "...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

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