Discovering Phonetics and Phonology

Contents
List of tables
List of figures
Preface for teachers
Preface for students
Acknowledgements
Part I: What is phonetics and why do I need it?
	1 Sound and spelling
		1.1 What’s wrong with English spelling?
		1.2 Other writing systems
		1.3 Intonation, stress and syllables
		1.4 Why phonetic transcription?
		Additional reading
		Exercises
	2 Doing phonetics
		2.1 Collecting data
		2.2 Doing linguistic analysis
		2.3 Some examples of phonetic analysis
		Additional reading
		Exercises
Part II: How to describe and classify sounds
	3 Consonants
		3.1 Articulation
		3.2 Spelling
		3.3 Transcription
		3.4 Acoustics
		Additional reading
		Exercises
	4 Vowels
		4.1 Articulation
		4.2 Monophthongs, diphthongs and triphthongs
		4.3 Spelling vowels
		4.4 Transcription
		4.5 Lexical sets
		4.6 Acoustics
		Additional reading
		Exercises
Part III: Putting sounds together
	5 Syllables
		5.1 What is a syllable?
		5.2 How many syllables? (And how do you know?)
		5.3 Sonority
		5.4 The different parts of a syllable and phonotactics
		5.5 Syllable weight
		5.6 Where do they begin and end?
		5.7 Syllables and spelling
		Additional reading
		Exercises
	6 Morphemes and words
		6.1 Morphology
		6.2 Inflectional versus derivational morphology
		6.3 Words
		Additional reading
		Exercises
Part IV: Rhythm and tune
	7 Stress
		7.1 What is stress?
		7.2 Lexical stress
		7.3 Phrasal stress
		Additional reading
		Exercises
	8 Tone and Intonation
		8.1 Pitch and tone
		8.2 Intonation
		8.3 Linguistic tone
		Additional reading
		Exercises
	9 Length and duration
		9.1 Vowel length
		9.2 Consonant length
		9.3 Length versus duration
		9.4 Representing length in transcriptions
		9.5 Spelling
		Additional reading
		Exercises
Part V: Phonology
	10 Phonological features and classes
		10.1 Features
		10.2 Classes of sounds
		Additional reading
		Exercises
	11 Phonemes
		11.1 Minimal pairs and sets
		11.2 Phonemes and spelling
		11.3 Phones, allophones and phonemes
		11.4 Complementary distribution
		11.5 Phonetic similarity
		11.6 Free variation
		11.7 Phonemic analysis
		11.8 Transcription
		Additional reading
		Exercises
	12 Problems with phonemes
		12.1 When phonemes don’t tell the whole story
		12.2 Case study 1: nasals
		12.3 Case study 2: unstressed vowels
		12.4 Sounds with no phoneme
		12.5 Ambiguity
		12.6 What is the problem?
		Additional reading
		Exercises
Part VI Phonological theory
	13 Processes
		13.1 Single sounds
		13.2 Groups of sounds
		Additional reading
		Exercises
	14 Theoretical approaches
		14.1 Levels of representation
		14.2 What versus why
		14.3 Phonological theories
		Additional reading
Answers to exercises
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Bibliography
Index