Cover; Book title; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Preface; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the third edition; The International Phonetic Alphabet; 1 Introduction; 2 Introduction to articulatory phonetics; 3 Consonants; 4 Vowels; 5 Acoustic phonetics; 6 Above the segment; 7 Features; 8 Phonemic analysis; 9 Phonological alternations, processes and rules; 10 Phonological structure; 11 Derivational analysis; 12 Constraint-based analysis; 13 Constraining the model; Glossary; References; Subject index; Varieties of English index; Language index
Summary
Intended for the beginner, this book examines some of the ways linguists can express what native speakers know about the sound system of their language
