British English Phonetic Transcription
About this ebook
- transcribing individual words, including consonants, vowels, primary stress, secondary stress, syllabic consonants and inflections;
- transcribing phrases and sentences, including liaison, weak forms, elision and assimilation;
- transcribing intonation, including the structure of English intonation and recognising pitch patterns.
Ideally suited as a standalone workbook or for use alongside American English Phonetic Transcription, British English Phonetic Transcription is key reading for undergraduate students of linguistics as well as anyone teaching or learning English as a foreign language.
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Paul Carley has held posts at the University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, the universities of Bedfordshire and Leicester, UK, and the Fakeeh College for Medical Sciences, Jeddah. He is a regular lecturer on the UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics and examiner for the International Phonetic Association.
Inger M. Mees is Associate Professor Emeritus at the Copenhagen Business School and a part-time lecturer in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, Copenhagen University. She has formerly held lectureships at the universities of Leiden and Copenhagen. She is on the academic staff of the UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics.
