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Practical Phonetics and Phonology provides a one stop resource for students with interests in English phonetics. Assuming no prior knowledge and using a minimum of academic jargon, this book aims to present the essentials of the subject in a lively way whilst stressing the day-to-day applications of phonetics and phonology. It covers all the core concepts of speech science, features a discussion of regional and social accent variation, outlines pronunciation change and includes classic readings from key names in the discipline.

Practical Phonetics and Phonology 2^nd edition:

• presents the essentials of the subject in a lively way whilst stressing the day-to-day applications of phonetics and phonology
• covers all the core concepts of speech science such as: the phoneme, syllable structure, production of speech, vowel and consonant possibilities, glottal settings, stress, rhythm, intonation and the surprises of connected speech.
• incorporates classic readings from key names in the discipline including David Abercrombie, David Crystal, Dennis Fry, Daniel Jones, Peter Ladefoged, and Steven Pinker
• includes an audio CD containing a collection of samples provided by genuine speakers of 23 accent varieties from Britain, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Singapore and West Africa.

New features of this edition include: new readings by Peter Trudgill and John Well; a section on English orthography; an appendix of websites dealing with phonetics and accents of English; revised and updated activities and examples. The accompanying CD now includes: British Estuary English and New York English.

The 2nd edition of Practical Phonetics and Phonology will appeal to all students of English language and linguistics and those training for a certificate in TEFL.

Formerly published by Peytral Publications

This field-tested guide shows elementary school educators how to teach phonemic awareness with easy-to-use lessons that benefit all students and demonstrates how proficiency can be achieved in as little as 20 minutes daily.

The author provides a reader-friendly overview of phonemic principles, scripted lessons for immediate use, reproducible blackline masters, and progress charts to track student development.

In 2004, Lynne Truss' little book on punctuation, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, was a surprise hit. The Sudoku craze swept the country in 2005. This year, why not challenge your brain with words instead of numbers? WORDS FAIL ME by Teresa Monachino, is a collection of mind-teasing wordplay designed to artfully manipulate the unpredictability of the English language.

Award-winning designer and typographer Teresa Monachino has always been baffled by the English language's contradictions and peculiarities. Words do not mean what they say--the middle letters of believe spell lie. Words have the same spelling but differ in both pronunciation and meaning--minute is both miniscule and a measurement of time. Words are paired together redundantly--empty space or honest truth. WORDS FAIL ME is a witty collection of these unruly words, all set in Monachino's immaculate typography, that demonstrate the offbeat nature of the English language.

Questions of spelling, pronunciation or the blatantly nonsensical are illustrated through clever visual representations that are created entirely through artfully manipulated typography. This playful and sometimes hilarious text sorts the homonyms from the heteronyms and introduces the `antigram' (demonstrating how the swift shuffle of certain letters can create words that entirely contradict the first: honestly becomes on the sly, earliest becomes rise late and, fabulously, Elvis = lives!). Each chapter reveals, explains Monachino, how "English hoodwinks us into believing one thing while concealing something quite different. All is not what it seems."

Using striking and witty graphic design the author turns these tricky words into mind-bending puzzles, demanding answers to such troublesome questions as, why is abbreviation such a long word, does monosyllabic really need five syllables and why is lisp so hard to say if you have one?