This volume is the second of a set which forms a scholarly survey of accents of the English language. It includes descriptions of familiar and hitherto neglected accents, and an examination of the implications for phonological theory.[...]
This text is about the way English is pronounced by different people in different places. The author examines the various accents used by people who speak English as their mother tongue: of the USA, Canada, the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Black Africa and the Far East.[...]
Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in diffeent places. Volume I provides a synthesizing introduction, which shows how accents vary not only geographically, but also with social class, formality, sex and age; and in volumes 2 and 3 the author examines in gre[...]
An introduction to intonation - the expression of meaning through rise and fall of pitch in our voices - in English.[...]
How do you pronounce omega, tortoise and sloth? And why? Do charted and chartered sound the same? How do people pronounce the names Charon, Punjab, and Sexwale? In this engaging book, John Wells, a world-renowned phonetician and phonologist, explores these questions and others. Each chapter consists[...]