Sound Patterns of Spoken English
1. Edition December 2002
172 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Sound Patterns of Spoken English is a concise, to-the-point
compendium of information about the casual pronunciation of
everyday English as compared to formal citation forms.
* Concise, to-the-point compendium of information about casual
pronunciation of English as compared to citation forms.
* Covers varieties of English language including General American
and Standard Southern British.
* Overlaps the boundaries of several areas of study including
sociolinguistics, lexicography, rhetoric, and speech
sciences.
* Examines English pronunciation as found in everyday
speech.
* Accompanied by website at
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/shockey featuring examples from
different accents.
Preface.
1 Setting the Stage.
1.1 Phonetics or Phonology?
1.2 Fast Speech?
2 Processes in Conversational English.
2.1 The Vulnerability Hierarchy.
2.2 Reduction Processes in English.
2.3 Stress as a Conditioning Factor.
2.4 Syllabic Conditioning Factors.
2.5 Other Processes.
2.6 Icons.
2.7 Weak Forms?
2.8 Combinations of these Processes.
3 Attempts at Phonological Explanation.
3.1 Past Work on Conversational Phonology.
3.2 Natural Phonology.
3.3 Variable Rules.
3.4 More on Rule Order.
3.5 Attempts in the 1990s.
3.6 And into the New Millennium.
4 Experimental Studies in Casual Speech.
4.1 Production of Casual Speech.
4.2 Perception of Casual Speech.
5 Applications.
5.1 Phonology.
5.2 First and Second Language Acquisition.
5.3 Interacting with Computers.
Bibliography.
Index.
"This is an excellent book that gives a true account of what
English speech is really like."
--Gerry Knowles, University of Lancaster
"Linda Shockey addresses questions of interest to nearly every
phonetician and phonologist, providing extensive examples of
attested conversational reductions in numerous dialects of English.
By presenting the reductions along with their linguistic
conditioning factors, she strikes a forceful blow against the
belief that casual speech is simply sloppy speech. Sound
Patterns of Spoken English will be of interest to theoretical
phonologists and experimental phoneticians, as well as researchers
in speech perception, language acquisition and speech
technology."
--Lisa Lavoie, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
