English Sociophonetics

Informationen zum Autor Kevin Watson is Lecturer in English Phonetics at Lancaster University Klappentext An introduction to this subfield in linguistics in which phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics interact. Zusammenfassung This is the first textbook to examine issues of phonetics! phonology and sociolinguistics simultaneously. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Variation in spoken language; 2. The sounds of 'English'; 3. Looking at sounds; 4. English phonologies: sounds in the head; 5. Sound change; 6. Phonological variation in the brain; 7. Sociophonetics applied; 8. Doing sociophonetics.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Watson
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9780748636150
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-3615-0
• Series: Edinburgh Sociolinguistics; Edinburgh Sociolinguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics