Pronouncing English
Richard V. Teschner
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Description for Pronouncing English
Paperback. A textbook for teaching English phonetics and phonology, this title offers a "stress-based" approach while incorporating all the standard course topics. Num Pages: 296 pages, 6 halftones, 79 figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 177 x 19. Weight in Grams: 646.
Pronouncing English is a textbook for teaching English phonetics and phonology, offering an original "stress-based" approach while incorporating all the standard course topics. Drawing on current linguistic theory, it uniquely analyzes prosody first, and then discusses its effects on pronunciation-emphasizing suprasegmental features such as meter, stress, and intonation, then the vowels and consonants themselves. Distinguished by being the first work of its kind to be based on an exhaustive statistical analysis of all the lexical entries of an entire dictionary, Pronouncing English is complemented by a list of symbols and a glossary. Richard Teschner and M. Stanley Whitley present an ... Read more
Pronouncing English is a textbook for teaching English phonetics and phonology, offering an original "stress-based" approach while incorporating all the standard course topics. Drawing on current linguistic theory, it uniquely analyzes prosody first, and then discusses its effects on pronunciation-emphasizing suprasegmental features such as meter, stress, and intonation, then the vowels and consonants themselves. Distinguished by being the first work of its kind to be based on an exhaustive statistical analysis of all the lexical entries of an entire dictionary, Pronouncing English is complemented by a list of symbols and a glossary. Richard Teschner and M. Stanley Whitley present an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781589010024
SKU
V9781589010024
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99-50
About Richard V. Teschner
Richard V. Teschner is a professor in the Department of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Texas, El Paso. M. Stanley Whitley is professor of Spanish and Linguistics in the Department of Romance Languages at Wake Forest University.
Reviews for Pronouncing English
"Teschner and Whitley have produced a fascinating book which will be an invaluable resource to all interested in the study and teaching of English pronunciation." - Grant Goodall, professor and director of the linguistics language program at the University of California, San Diego; "Teschner and Whitley succeed in their goals of providing a methodical, thorough, and engaging treatment of stress ... Read more