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Studies in the Pronunciation of English: A Commemorative Volume in Honour of A.C. Gimson book cover

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Studies in the Pronunciation of English A Commemorative Volume in Honour of A.C. Gimson

Edited By Susan Ramsaran Copyright 1990
384 Pages
by Routledge

388 Pages
by Routledge

388 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 1990, this collection celebrates the life and work of Professor A. C. Gimson, four years after his untimely death in 1985. A. C. Gimson, Professor of Phonetics at University College London, 1966-83, was the most distinguished and influential phonetician of his day, concentrating specifically on English speech. This collection of essays on phonetics and phonology of English-... Read more

1. A.C. Gimson and the pronunciation of English Susan Ramsaran

Section I: Prosody

2. Nucleus placement and three classes of exception Alan Cruttenden

3. Focus and tone in English intonation J.A. Maidment

4. Tonal association domains and the prosodic hierarchy in English Carlos Gussenhoven

5. Intonation structures and pragmatic interpretation Jill House

6. Some notes on rhythm in english J.R. Baldwin

Section II: Phonology and phonetic description of segmental aspects of English

7. Old English short voweld before nasals Niels Davidsen-Neilsen

8. Syllabification and allophony J.C. Wells

9. Derived phonological contrasts John Harris

10. Quantity and quality in British and American vowel systems Geoff Lindsey

11. Some vowel systems in American English William G. Moulton

12. The development of pronunciation in English language dictionaries Arthur J. Bronstein

Section III: Accents of English: RP

13. ‘Inverted v’ in contemporary English André Martinet

14. HappY land reconnoitred: the unstressed word-final –y vowel in General British pronunciation J. Windsor Lewis

15. Generalisations on RP consonant clusters Michael G. Ashby and Patricia D.S. Ashby

16. RP: fact and fiction Susan Ramsaran

17. The social meaning of RP: and intergenerational perspective Howard giles, Nikolas Coupland, JKaren Henwood, Jim Harriman and Justine Coupland

18. Acceptable models for TEFL (with special reference to Nigeria) Titilayo Ufomata

Section IV: Accents of English: native and non-native

19. The pronunciation of English in India R.K. Bansal

20. The pronunciation of English vowels by Shona speakers: problems and causes Alec J.C. Pongweni

21. Stress and intonation and the intelligibility of South African black English L.W. Lanham

22. Missingsch + English = Minglish (a North German variety of English) Hiltrud Martens

23. A ‘standard’ South African vowel system Roger Lass

24. Some rhythem, resonance and quality variations in urban Tyneside speech John Local

Section V: Phonostylistics

25. The description of connected speech processes Francis Nolan and Paul E. Kerswill

26. An example of phonological reduction in english Wolf-Dietrich Bald

27. Pre-processing of anomalous text-strings in an automatic text-to-speech system John Laver, Mike McAllister and Jan McAllister

28. Phonotactics and phonæsthesia: the power of folk lexicology Katie Wales

References

Biography

Susan Ramsaran

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