Philippine Christian University

Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index.

Chapter 1: Phonetics -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Phonetics Transcription -- 1.3 Description and Articulation of Sounds of English -- 1.4 Additional Sound -- 1.5 Cardinal Vowels -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 2: Phonology -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Complementary versus Overlapping Distribution -- 2.3 Phonemic Analysis: A Mini-Demo -- 2.4 Free Variation -- 2.5 Morphophonology -- 2.6 Practical Uses of Phonology Analysis -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 3: English Consonants -- 3.1 Stops -- 3.2 Fricatives -- 3.3 Affricates -- 3.4 Nasals -- 3.5 Approximants -- 3.6 Sociophonetic Variation -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 4: English Vowels -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Vowel Set of American English -- 4.3 Front Vowels -- 4.4 Central Vowels -- 4.5 Back Vowels -- 4.6 Diphthongs -- 4.7 Sociophonetic Variation -- 4.8 Non-US Varieties -- 4.9 Full Vowels-Reduced Vowels -- 4.10 Full (Strong) Forms versus Reduced (Weak) Forms of Function Words -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 5: Acoustics of Vowels and Consonants -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Spectrographic Analysis -- 5.3 Vowels and Diphthongs -- 5.4 Consonants -- 5.5 Putting it Together -- 5.6 Waveform Analysis -- 5.7 Context -- 5.8 Practical Applications: Some Examples -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 6: Syllables -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Number of Syllables -- 6.3 Sonority -- 6.4 Syllabification -- 6.5 English Syllable Phonotactics -- 6.6 Written Syllabification --- 6.7 Syllable Weight and Ambisyllabicity -- 6.8 Practical Applications -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 7: Stress and Intonation -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Noun and Adjective Stress -- 7.3 Verb Stress -- 7.4 Secondary Stress -- 7.5 Affixes -- 7.6 Stress in Compounds -- 7.7 Difference between American and British -- 7.8 Intonation -- 7.9 Variations among the Varieties -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 8: Phonology of L1 -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Pre-linguistic Stage -- 8.3 Babbling to the first words -- 8.4 First 50 words -- 8.5 Systematic Development and patterns -- 8.6 Optimality Theory -- 8.7 Implications for Clinical treatment -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 9: Structural Factors in Second Language Phonology -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Spanish-English Mini Contrastive Analysis -- 9.3 Differential Treatment of Mismatches -- 9.4 Markedness -- 9.5 Ontogeny Phylogeny Model (OPM) -- 9.6 Optimality Theory (OT) -- 9.7 Perception -- 9.8 Bilingual Phonology -- 9.9 Loan Phonology -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 10: Spelling and Pronunciation -- 10.1 Irregularity of English Spelling -- 10.2 Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondences in English -- 10.3 Morpohological Basis of English Spelling -- 10.4 American English vs. British English -- Summary -- Exercises

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