An Introduction to English Phonetics and Phonology

The book builds the descriptive apparatus of articulatory phonetics step by step - voicing, place and manner - and then applies it: to the twenty-four consonant phonemes of English.The chapters are cumulative. Chapters One and Two establish the vocabulary and the physical mechanism; Chapters Three to Five build the descriptive system of voicing, place and manner. For learners, the importance of a book on phonology lies in its role as a key to mastering the spoken and practical aspects of any language (whether Arabic or a foreign language like English); it transitions the learner from spontaneous imitation to a precise, scientific understanding of how speech is produced.