Pronouncing English: A Stress-Based Approach with CD-ROM [With CDROM]

by Melvin Stanley Whitley, M. Stanley Whitley, Richard V. Teschner

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589010027
• ISBN13: 9781589010024
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 10.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary