British English Phonetic Transcription

<p><em>British English Phonetic Transcription</em> provides an accessible introduction to phonemic, phonetic and intonational transcription with a focus on British English. Featuring exercises, revision tasks and recordings to help students gain hands-on practice, the book takes a learning-by-doing approach and ensures students gain practice using each new symbol or concept introduced before moving on to the next. Consisting of three parts, the book covers:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>transcribing individual words, including consonants, vowels, primary stress, secondary stress, syllabic consonants and inflections;</li> <p> </p> <li>transcribing phrases and sentences, including liaison, weak forms, elision and assimilation;</li> <p> </p> <li>transcribing intonation, including the structure of English intonation and recognising pitch patterns.</li> </ul><p>Ideally suited as a standalone workbook or for use alongside <em>American English Phonetic Transcription</em>, <i>British English Phonetic Transcription </i>is key reading for undergraduate students of linguistics as well as anyone teaching or learning English as a foreign language. </p>