AL MOMENTO ESAURITO
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101316610365
ISBN-139781316610367
eBay Product ID (ePID)221952789
Product Key Features
Number of Pages284 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameSounds Fascinating : Further Observations on English Phonetics and Phonology
SubjectLinguistics / Phonetics & Phonology, Speech
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines
AuthorJ. C. Wells
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight13.8 Oz
Item Length9.7 in
Item Width6.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2016-032384
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"A key property of an insightful author is the ability to articulate observations about the world that a reader may have made only passively, and to force her to consider them more deliberately. Wells, long a talented guide to the world of phonetics in this way, lavishes us with more of his colorful contemplations in this new volume." Jason B. Bishop, City University of New York
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal421.5
Table Of ContentPart I. Words, Names, People and Places: 1. Unusual words; 2. Food and drink words; 3. Interesting words; 4. Names; 5. People; 6. Places; 7. Abroad; 8. Home from abroad; Part II. Sounds and Letters: 9. Allophones; 10. Phonetic processes; 11. Spelling; 12. Transcription; Part III. Applied Phonetics: 13. Classification; 14. EFL; 15. Accents; 16. Lexical stress; 17. Connected speech; 18. Texts in transcription; Part IV. Roundup: 19. Rhetoric; 20. Language mosaic; 21. Postscript.
SynopsisHow do you pronounce biopic, synod, and Breughel? - and why? Do our cake and archaic sound the same? Where does the stress go in stalagmite? What's odd about the word epergne? Pontcysyllte is obviously Welsh, but Penge is Welsh too How cool is Caol in the Highlands of Scotland? What can Wesley's hymns tell us about sound change in English? How do people pronounce Wroclaw in Poland? How can anyone manage to say Gdynia as just two syllables? Why is the village of Frith in the island of Montserrat usually pronounced as if spelt Frits? What embarrassing faux pas in English did a Russian conglomerate make? Should I bild a cubbard instead of building a cupboard? How should we capitalize an exclamation mark, and why might we need to? What's a depressor consonant? As a finale, the author writes a letter to his 16-year-old self., This well-known writer offers an accessible insight into several aspects of phonetics - speech sounds, pronunciation, accents, intonation, and phonetic symbols., How do you pronounce biopic, synod, and Breughel? - and why? Do our cake and archaic sound the same? Where does the stress go in stalagmite? What's odd about the word epergne? Pontcysyllte is obviously Welsh, but Penge is Welsh too! How cool is Caol in the Highlands of Scotland? What can Wesley's hymns tell us about sound change in English? How do people pronounce Wroclaw in Poland? How can anyone manage to say Gdynia as just two syllables? Why is the village of Frith in the island of Montserrat usually pronounced as if spelt Frits? What embarrassing faux pas in English did a Russian conglomerate make? Should I bild a cubbard instead of building a cupboard? How should we capitalize an exclamation mark, and why might we need to? What's a depressor consonant? As a finale, the author writes a letter to his 16-year-old self.
LC Classification NumberPE1133
