Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English - Softcover

Upton, Clive; Kretzschmar, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198607725 ISBN 13: 9780198607724

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2003

Synopsis

The Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation, now published in paperback, is the most up-to-date record of the pronunciation of British and American English. Based on research by a joint UK and US team of linguistics experts, with support from Oxford English Dictionaries, it is a unique survey of how English is really spoken in the twenty-first century. The dictionary offers a full reappraisal of the pronunciation models for modern British and American English. Whereas other pronunciation dictionaries use a model which is rooted in the speech of the middle of the last century, this dictionary presents a model of actual, modern English. It is also the most comprehensive dictionary of its type available, and the only one to give full transcriptions for British and American English for every word. British English is recorded using modern RP, while the aim in recording American English pronunciations has been to produce a standard model, with avoidance of marked regional features. Pronunciations have been recorded using the internationally recognized IPA.

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Review

...we must certainly welcome this ambitious new work. It can only be an advantage to have a set of impressions independent from the ones available in the two previously available works of this nature and scope. (Journal of the International Phonetic Association)

About the Author

Dr. Clive Upton is based at the School of English, University of Leeds. Dr. William Kretzschmar is based at the Department of English, University of Georgia, USA. Rafal Konopka was formerly based at the University of Georgia, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0198607725
• ISBN 13: 9780198607724
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 1232