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.
- Concise, to-the-point compendium of information about casual pronunciation of English as compared to citation forms.
- Covers varieties of English language including General American and Standard Southern British.
- Overlaps the boundaries of several areas of study including sociolinguistics, lexicography, rhetoric, and speech sciences.
- Examines English pronunciation as found in everyday speech.
- Accompanied by website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/shockey featuring examples from different accents.
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List of Figures and Tables |
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Preface |
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3 | (8) |
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More mind than body (fossils again) |
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7 | (1) |
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Functional phonology and perception |
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9 | (1) |
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Have we captured the meaning of `phonology'? |
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10 | (1) |
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Influence of phonology on phonetics |
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11 | (1) |
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11 | (2) |
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13 | (1) |
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Processes in Conversational English |
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The Vulnerability Hierarchy |
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14 | (5) |
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16 | (1) |
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Membership in a linguistic unit |
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Reduction Processes in English |
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Stress as a Conditioning Factor |
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22 | (5) |
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Reduction of closure for obstruents |
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27 | (2) |
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29 | (1) |
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30 | (2) |
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Syllabic Conditioning Factors |
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32 | (10) |
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33 | (1) |
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34 | (2) |
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Syllable-final adjustments |
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36 | (6) |
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42 | (1) |
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42 | (4) |
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46 | (1) |
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Combinations of these Processes |
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48 | (1) |
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Attempts at Phonological Explanation |
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49 | (23) |
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Past Work on Conversational Phonology |
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49 | (3) |
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52 | (1) |
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61 | (3) |
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And into the New Millennium |
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67 | (4) |
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67 | (4) |
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71 | (1) |
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Experimental Studies in Casual Speech |
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72 | (39) |
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Production of Casual Speech |
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72 | (17) |
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General production studies |
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Production/Perception studies of particular processes |
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80 | (9) |
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Perception of Casual Speech |
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89 | (20) |
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89 | (4) |
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Phonology in speech perception |
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93 | (11) |
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104 | (5) |
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109 | (2) |
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111 | (16) |
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111 | (6) |
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Writ small in English, writ large in other languages |
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111 | (2) |
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113 | (4) |
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First and Second Language Acquisition |
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117 | (7) |
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First language acquisition |
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117 | (2) |
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Second language acquisition |
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119 | (5) |
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Interacting with Computers |
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124 | (2) |
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125 | (1) |
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125 | (1) |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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Linda Shockey is Lecturer in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at the University of Reading. She specializes in acoustic and articulatory phonetics and phonology and is co-editor of In Honor of Ilse Lehiste (1988).