An Introduction to the Comparative Phonetics of English and French in North AmericaThis textbook is designed to fill two basic needs. One is for a clear and straightforward presentation of the rudiments of articulatory phonetics which is geared specifically to the requirements of the (future) language teacher, and not exclusively to the student of linguistics, and in which the basic concepts and terminology are introduced via English as opposed to a variety of languages. An even greater need, perhaps, and one that has gone unfulfilled for too long, is for a simple but reasonably complete overview of the phonetic inventory of North American French. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
I SPELLING AND PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION | 3 |
II ENGLISH PHONETICS | 7 |
III FRENCH PHONETICS | 43 |
IV FURTHER READING | 69 |
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An Introduction to the Comparative Phonetics of English and French in North ... Marc Picard No preview available - 1987 |
An Introduction to the Comparative Phonetics of English and French in North ... Marc Picard No preview available - 1987 |
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affricates air passage airstream allophones alveolar ridge alveolar stop articulatory phonetics Canadian French central approxim characteristic complementary distribution counterparts difference diphthongs English and French English consonants English vowels environment fact Figure FINAL Postvocalic forms francophones fricative front vowel glottal glottis grapheme hawed high vowels INITIAL Prevocalic Interconsonantal italicized segments language lips long vowels LOW VOWELS manner of articulation MEDIAL Intervocalic midlow narrow transcription nasal consonant obstruent occur orthography p t k pairs palatal palato-alveolar palato-alveolar fricative phonetic transcription Phonétique phonological point of articulation position Postconsonantal Preconsonantal present indicative produce pronounced pronunciation schwa sound unit speakers speech sounds Spelling Voicing Place stress stress-timed language subjunctive Symbol Spelling Voicing Table tongue unreleased unreleased stops Unround Round unstressed syllables velar vocal cords vocal tract voiced alveolar voiceless stops Voicing Place Manner vowel or glide vowel quality words