Synopses & Reviews
Becoming proficient in phonetics takes practice, practice, and more practice. The Applied Phonetics Workbook provides just the resources to allow you to practice and hone your transcription skills. The three audio CDs that accompany the workbook provide a wide variety of transcription exercises. Exercises begin at a very basic level and build as your skills improve and develop.
Synopsis
"Applied Phonetics is the only comprehensive, systematic, and classroom tested approach to understanding phonetics and phonetic transcription currently available. Applied Phonetics is divided into two distinct learning units to aid in student comprehension. The first section provides an introduction to the field of phonetics and the second provides a complete overview of each of the sounds of American English making this textbook a reference users will use in their practice well after the course is completed. The final chapter covers the prosodic elements of speech, a topic frequently omitted from standard phonetic textbooks.
About the Author
Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences Wichita State University
Table of Contents
For the Student. Acknowledgements. Part I Mastering the Basics. Section 1 The Phonetic Alphabet: An Overview. Section 2 Consonants, Vowels. Section 3 Sound Variations in Phonetic Contexts, Registers, and Dialects. Section 4 Consonants, Vowels and Diphthongs. Section 5 Consonants, Vowels and Diphthongs. Section 6 Vowels and Diphthongs. Section 7 Stress in American English. Section 8 Transcribing More Allophonic Variations: Diacritics. Part II Advanced Transcription. Section 9 Transcribing Connected Speech. Section 10 Transcribing Dialect Differences. Section 11 Transcribing Non-Native Speech. Section 12 Transcribing Phonologically Disordered Speech. Section 13 Using Alternative Transcription Systems. Section 14 Putting It All Together: A Review of General Concepts. References. Appendix A Printed and Handwritten Symbols. Appendix B Selected Answers to Some Transcription Exercises. Appendix C Comparison of Commonly Used Phonetic Alphabets. Index. Flash Cards.