Sound Patterns of Spoken English [Paperback]

• Concise, to-the-point compendium of information about casual pronunciation of English as compared to citation forms.
• Covers varieties of English language including General American and Standard Southern British.
• Overlaps the boundaries of several areas of study including sociolinguistics, lexicography, rhetoric, and speech sciences.
• Examines English pronunciation as found in everyday speech.
• Accompanied by website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/shockey featuring examples from different accents.

Preface.

1 Setting the Stage.

1.1 Phonetics or Phonology?

1.2 Fast Speech?

2 Processes in Conversational English.

2.1 The Vulnerability Hierarchy.

2.2 Reduction Processes in English.

2.3 Stress as a Conditioning Factor.

2.4 Syllabic Conditioning Factors.

2.5 Other Processes.

2.6 Icons.

2.7 Weak Forms?

2.8 Combinations of these Processes.

3 Attempts at Phonological Explanation.

3.1 Past Work on Conversational Phonology.

3.2 Natural Phonology.

3.3 Variable Rules.

3.4 More on Rule Order.

3.5 Attempts in the 1990s.

3.6 And into the New Millennium.

4 Experimental Studies in Casual Speech.

4.1 Production of Casual Speech.