<div dir="ltr"><div>Issues of Accents in English: Waniek-Klimczak (Ed)<br><a onclick="window.open('http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=19-1.html&submissionid=186967&topicid=2&msgnumber=1','none','width=650,height=500,scrollbars=yes');" href="javascript:;"> </a><br>
<br>Title: Issues of Accents in English <br>Published: 2008 <br>Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing<br> <a href="http://www.c-s-p.org/">http://www.c-s-p.org </a><br><br><br>Abstract:<br><br>Adopting a central theme of variability, the book explores different <br>
aspects of native and non-native accents of English. The dominating <br>perspective is that of a non-native speaker, although - as argued by some <br>contributors - the very distinction between native and non-native English <br>
may need to be redefined. As the debate on the pronunciation of English as <br>a lingua franca continues, this volume presents well-focused studies <br>investigating the acquisition and use of the sound system by native and <br>
non-native speakers, problems with the choice and variability in <br>pronunciation models and pedagogical aspects of pronunciation instruction. <br>The issue of accents calls for a comprehensive approach; this book aims to <br>
provide such a broad perspective, based on expertise and experience of the <br>contributors, who are specialist in linguitics, applied linguitics, <br>phonetics, phonology and ESL. <br><br>The book is divided into three parts. Part one discusses complex <br>
conditioning of production and perception of native and non-native <br>accents. It contains acoustic and auditory studies investigating the effect <br>of such independent variables as identity, L1 or contextual factors on the <br>
elements of the sound system. Part two links the accent variability studies <br>to the pedagogical context by presenting problems with the pronunciation <br>model, its choice and variability. The main focus of part three is on <br>
pronunciation teaching: papers presented in this section report on the <br>methods and results of phonetic instruction in different settings </div>
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