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Author Collins, Beverley

Title The phonetics of English and Dutch / by Beverley Collins & Inger M. Mees
Edition 5th rev. ed
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 363 pages) : illustrations
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. working basis -- 2. phoneme -- 3. Transcription -- 4. speech mechanism -- 5. Classification of consonants -- 6. Fortis/lenis contrast in Dutch and English -- 7. Secondary articulation -- 8. Description and classification of vowels -- 9. Back to the phoneme -- 10. Phonation and states of the glottis -- 11. English checked vowels -- 12. English free vowels -- 13. Sounds and spelling: vowels -- 14. vowels of Dutch -- 15. English fricative consonants -- 16. English stop consonants -- 17. English nasal and approximant consonants -- 18. Sounds and spelling: consonants -- 19. consonants of Dutch -- 20. Patterns of adjustment in connected speech: assimilation and elision -- 21. Articulatory setting in English and Dutch -- 22. Stress and rhythm -- 23. Pitch, tone and intonation -- 24. Functions of intonation in English -- 25. Intonation in Dutch and English compared -- 26. Error analysis -- 27. brief look at other accents of the British Isles -- 28. Some differences between American and British English -- Guide to the technique of phonemic transcription -- Guide to the technique of allophonic description -- International Phonetic Alphabet -- English Phonetic Symbol checksheet
Summary "This fifth revised edition, now with corrections incorporating the reactions of Dutch and Belgian users, provides a complete introductory course on the phonetics of English and Dutch based on an essentially practical approach to the subject. No previous knowledge of phonetics is assumed and all terms are explained in straightforward English as they are introduced. Theoretical and practical aspects of the subject are clarified for the student by means of numerous self-study exercises in articulation and transcription." "The book contains a detailed contrastive description of British RP English and of Dutch (in both the Netherlands and Belgian standard varieties). In addition to a full description of the individual vowels and consonants, full attention is paid to features of connected speech, e.g. intonation, assimilation and elision, stress and articulatory setting. There are sections on sound-spelling relationships in English and an analysis of the commonest pronunciations errors in the English of Dutch speakers. A guide to the technique of phonemic transcription is also provided, with numerous transcription passages for which correction keys are available."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-348) and index
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Subject English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- Dutch
English language -- Phonology, Comparative -- Dutch
Dutch language -- Phonology, Comparative -- English
English language -- Phonetics.
Dutch language -- Phonetics
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- English as a Second Language.
Dutch language -- Phonetics
English language
English language -- Phonetics
English language -- Phonology, Comparative -- Dutch
Fonetiek.
Engels.
Nederlands.
Taalvergelijking.
Genre/Form Textbooks
Form Electronic book
Author Mees, Inger M
LC no. 2003276407
ISBN 9004132252
9789004132252
1423711955
9781423711957