Fundamentals of Phonetics: A Practical Guide for Students (with FREE Audio CD) - Softcover

Small, Larry H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205273319 ISBN 13: 9780205273317

Publisher: Pearson, 1998

Synopsis

Fundamentals of Phonetics is a total learning package designed to help instructors provide their students with the most current topics and theories related to phonetics and phonetic transcription. The focus is on learning the skills necessary for expert phonetic transcription of individuals with disordered speech. In addition, this book emphasizes issues tied to linguistic phonetics with an introduction to clinical phonetics, and to issues involving dialectal variation of speech, a topic missing (or dated) in most texts. Without auditory examples, it is difficult for the instructor to describe and explain dialects; and difficult for the students to understand several topics associated with speech production ― such as word stress and production of certain speech sounds. With that in mind, Fundamentals of Phonics includes a free audio CD that allows students to listen to examples, oral discussions, and several review exercises from the text. A CD icon alerts students to listen to the CD while completing these specific exercises.

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From the Back Cover

Centered on a strong foundation of hands-on experience, Fundamentals of Phonetics: A Practical Guide for Students, Second Edition, is designed to help instructors provide their students with the most current topics and theories related to phonetics and phonetic transcription.

Highlights of the Second Edition:

• Approaches phonetics in a clear, comprehensive and "early-stage" manner for students who have not yet begun clinical training.
• Supplemental audio CDs provide students additional practice in transcription by allowing them to listen to various speakers with varying dialects. A CD icon alerts students to listen to the audio recordings while completing text exercises (Chapters 2-8).
• Provides a vast amount of transcription exercises, with more examples of children with phonological problems (Chapters 4-8).
• NEW examples of Arabic and Russian Influenced English.
• NEW exercises that provide practice transcribing the same sentence by more than one speaker.

Supplemental Audio CDs Available!
Provide your students additional practice in transcription through this three-CD set with 180 minutes of recordings. Receive a 10% discount on both the text and the CD set by using this special package ISBN: 0-205-44491-1!

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Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0205273319
• ISBN 13: 9780205273317
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360