Practical English Phonetics and Phonology - A Resource Book for Students

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings - all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible -two-dimensional- structure is built around four sections - Introduction, Development, Exploration and Extension - which offer self-contained stages for study.Revised and updated throughout, this fourth edition of Practical English Phonetics and Phonology:

• presents the essentials of the subject and their day-to-day applications in an engaging and accessible manner;
• covers all the core concepts of phonetics and phonology, such as the phoneme, syllable structure, production of speech, vowel and consonant possibilities, glottal settings, stress, rhythm, intonation and the