Peter Roach - English Phonetics And Phonology A Practical Course (2Ed; Cambridge, 1991).doc

English Phonetics and Phonology A practica) course Second edition Peter Roach Professor of Phonetics University of Reading CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMISRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Streer, Cambridge CB2 1RP, United Kingdom CAMISRIDGE UN1VERSITY PRESS The Edinhurgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, United Kingdom 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 100114211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia Cambridge University Press 1983, 1991 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any parí may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1983 Eighth printing 1989 Second edition 1991 Eighth printing 199S Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge Library of Congress catalogue card number: 90-28674 British Library cataloguing in publication data Roach, Peter 1943 English phonetics and phonology: a practical course. - 2nd ed. 1. English language. Phonetics 1. Title 421.5 ISBN 0 521 40718 4 ISBN 0 521 40719 2 Set of 2 cassettes (ISBN 0 521 28252 7 Students Book first edition) (ISBN 0 521 28253 5 Tutors Book first edition) List of symbols used Preface to the-second edition Thanks How to use this book 1 1 Introduction 3 2 The production of speech sounds 8 2.1 Articulators aboye the larynx 2.2 Vowel and consonant 2.3 English short vowels 3 Long vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs 18 3.1 Long and short vowels 3.2 Diphthongs 3.3 Triphthongs 4 Voicing and consonante 26 4.1 The larynx 4.2 Respiration and voicing 4.3 Plosives 4.4 English plosives 4.5 Fortis and lenis 5 The phoneme 36 5.1 The phoneme 5.2 Symbols and transcription 5.3 Phonology 6 Fricatives and affricates 47 6.1 Production of fricatives and affricates 6.2 The fricatives of English 6.3 The affricates 6.4 Fortis consonants Contents 7 Nasals and other consonants 56 7.1 Nasals