Sound Patterns of Spoken English is a concise, to-the-point compendium of information about the casual pronunciation of everyday English as compared to formal citation forms.

• Concise, to-the-point compendium of information about casual pronunciation of English as compared to citation forms.
• Covers varieties of English language including General American and Standard Southern British.
• Overlaps the boundaries of several areas of study including sociolinguistics, lexicography, rhetoric, and speech sciences.
• Examines English pronunciation as found in everyday speech.
• Accompanied by website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/shockey featuring examples from different accents.

About the Author
Linda Shockey is Lecturer in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at the University of Reading. She specializes in acoustic and articulatory phonetics and phonology and is co-editor of In Honor of Ilse Lehiste (1988).

Reviews
"...the detailed information that is densely packed into this quite short text will be appreciated by many phoneticians, who will find it an exceptionally useful summary of the processes that affect conversational speech and the contexts under which they are most likely to occur." (Journal of the International Phonetic Association)



Book Information
ISBN 9780631230809
Author Linda Shockey
Format Paperback
Page Count 172
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 218g
Dimensions(mm) 218mm * 140mm * 12mm