Bente Hannisdal
Teachers and lecturers can find keys to all exercises on the book’s website, at www.universitetsforlaget.no/ analysing-english-pronunciation.
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ANALYSING ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION
Bente Hannisdal is associate professor of English linguistics at the University of Bergen.
Bente Hannisdal
This book is a collection of exercises in phonetics and phonology, and is aimed at Norwegian university and college students of English. It covers the main topics taught in undergraduate phonetics courses, such as transcription, phonemes and allophones, assimilation and elision, word stress, intonation, accents of English, and challenges for Norwegian learners. The book focuses on practical as well as analytical skills. It contains a large number of practical tasks where students learn how to read phoneme symbols, transcribe texts, and assign intonation to dialogues, but also includes theoretical aspects, such as the description and classification of speech sounds, and phonetic principles and processes such as weak forms, assimilation and elision. The exercises have varying degrees of difficulty, and can be used in class or as hand-in assignments. There is also a self-study part with keys to the exercises. The collection will be useful for students of English linguistics as well as teacher training students.
ANALYSING ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION Exercises in phonetics and phonology