TY - BOOK AU - Roach, Peter TI - English phonetics and phonology: a practical course SN - 9780521888820 AV - PE 1133 .R55 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Italy PB - Cambridge University Press KW - ENGLISH LANGUAGE -- PHONOLOGY N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The production of speech sounds -- Long vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs -- Voicing and consonants -- Phonemes and symbols -- Fricatives and affricates -- Nasals and other consonants -- The syllable -- Strong and weak syllables -- Stress in simple words -- Complex word stress -- Weak forms -- Problems in phonemic analysis -- Aspects of connected speech -- Intonation 1 -- Intonation 2 -- Intonation 3 -- Functions of intonation 1 -- Functions of intonation 2 -- Varieties of English pronunciation N2 - This book is designed to be studied from the beginning to end, with the relevant exercises being worked on for each chapter, and it is therefore quiet different from a reference book ER -