Types of pronunciation recorded 2.1 British pronunciation - RPĪmerican pronunciation - General American
Proper names Compounds and phrases Spelling Homophones Index to notes on pronunciation and phoneticsįoreword to the second edition Introduction For further information, visit his website at CONTENTS His first published book was an Esperanto dictionary. There he teachesĮnglish phonetics, both to native speakers and to EFL learners, as well as general phonetics and phonology and the phonetics of various other languages.Īmong the books he has written on the subject of phonetics and pronunciation are Jamaican Pronunciation in London and, his best-known work, the three-volume Accents of English. London, where he became a member of the academic staff in 1962. Both at school and as an undergraduate at Cambridge he special ized in Classics, but switched to phonetics as a postgraduate at University College Wells occupies the Chair of Phonetics in the University of London. SetinTimes byMorton Word Processing Ltd, Scarborough, United Kingdom Printed in China
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Middle, total suddenly, servant father, standard Raised letters: sounds sometimes optionally inserted. Typographical conventions, stress marks, other symbols y RPGen Am In foreign words only: 5 grand prix, chanson Light, valley, feel right, sorry, arrangeĪbout, comma, common influence, situation, annual Start, father lot, odd thought, law north, war This, other, smooth soon, cease, sister zero, zone, roses, buzz Tf church, match, nature d3 judge, age, soldierįat, coffee, rough, physics view, heavy, move thing, author, path Pen, copy, happen back, bubble, job tea, tight, button city, better day, ladder, odd key, cock, school get, giggle, ghost Key to phonetic symbols for English J RP Gen Consonants
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