The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English - Hardcover

Upton, Clive; Kretzschmar Jr., William A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138125660 ISBN 13: 9781138125667

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English is the most up-to-date record of the pronunciation of British and American English. Based on research by a joint UK and US team of linguistics experts, this is a unique survey of how English is really spoken in the twenty-first century. This second edition has been fully revised to include:

• a full reappraisal of the pronunciation models for modern British and American English;
• 2,000 new entries, including new words from the last decade, encyclopedic terms and proper names;
• separate IPA transcriptions for British and American English for over 100,000 words;
• information on grammatical variants including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, and verb tenses.

The most comprehensive dictionary of its type available, The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English is the essential reference for those interested in English pronunciation.

About this title

About the Author

Clive Upton is Emeritus Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Leeds, UK. He edits English Today, co-edited A Handbook of Varieties of English, and his Received Pronunciation transcription model has been used by Oxford English Dictionaries since 1993.

William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. is the Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities at the University of Georgia, USA. He is Editor of the American Linguistic Atlas Project, and he has laid the foundations for analysis of language as a complex system.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1138125660
• ISBN 13: 9781138125667
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1590