The Phonetics of English and Dutch - Softcover

Collins, Beverly; Mees, Inger M.; Mees, Inger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004115927 ISBN 13: 9789004115927

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 1999

Synopsis

This book 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-studies 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 sections on sound-spelling relationships in English and an analysis of the commonest pronunciation errors in the English of Dutch-speakers. A guide to the technique of phonemic transcription is also provided, with numerous transcription passage for which correction keys are available. One chapter is devoted to differences between British and American pronunciation. Another section provides a survey of a range of British regional accents (e.g. Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Northern, London, Midlands and West Country).

About this title

About the Author:

Beverley Collins, Doctorate in Phonetics, University of Utrecht (1988), is Lecturer in English at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Inger Mees, Doctorate in Sociolinguistics, University of Leiden (1983), is Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 9004115927
• ISBN 13: 9789004115927
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 363