27.4085, Books: Sounds Fascinating: Wells

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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 12:17:37
From: Jack Groutage [jgroutage at cambridge.org]
Subject: Sounds Fascinating: Wells

 


Title: Sounds Fascinating 
Subtitle: Further Observations on English Phonetics and Phonology 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://goo.gl/1Gbia7 


Author: J. C. Wells

Paperback: ISBN:  9781316610367 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 26.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316610367 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 17.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316610367 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 21.95


Abstract:

How do you pronounce biopic, synod, and Breughel? - and why? Do our cake and
archaic sound the same? Where does the stress go in stalagmite? What's odd
about the word epergne? Pontcysyllte is obviously Welsh, but Penge is Welsh
too! How cool is Caol in the Highlands of Scotland? What can Wesley's hymns
tell us about sound change in English? How do people pronounce Wrocław in
Poland? How can anyone manage to say Gdynia as just two syllables? Why is the
village of Frith in the island of Montserrat usually pronounced as if spelt
Frits? What embarrassing faux pas in English did a Russian conglomerate make?
Should I bild a cubbard instead of building a cupboard? How should we
capitalize an exclamation mark, and why might we need to? What's a depressor
consonant? As a finale, the author writes a letter to his 16-year-old self.
 



Part I. Words, Names, People and Places: 1. Unusual words; 2. Food and drink
words; 3. Interesting words; 4. Names; 5. People; 6. Places; 7. Abroad; 8.
Home from abroad; Part II. Sounds and Letters: 9. Allophones; 10. Phonetic
processes; 11. Spelling; 12. Transcription; Part III. Applied Phonetics: 13.
Classification; 14. EFL; 15. Accents; 16. Lexical stress; 17. Connected
speech; 18. Texts in transcription; Part IV. Roundup: 19. Rhetoric; 20.
Language mosaic; 21. Postscript.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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