Wednesday 3 August 2011

Table of Contents

Part I Words . . .
            Why transcribe?
        1 Vowels
            The short vowels
            The long vowels
                  Monophthongs (‚pure’ vowels)
                  Diphthongs
            The weak vowels
            Summary

        2 Consonants
            Plosives
            Nasals
            Fricatives
            Affricates
            Approximants
            Summary
            Syllabic consonants
            Inflections

        3 Word stress
            Compound words
           
        4 Allophones
            Consonants
                  Aspiration
                  Glottal reinforcement
                  Voiced flapping
                  Devoicing
                  /r/
                  Fronting, backing and rounding
                  Summary of allophones for each consonant
            Vowels
                  Nasalization
                  Clipping
                  Breaking
                  Smoothing
                  Diphthongization

        5 Accents
            Lexical sets
            USA
            London
            West Country
            Midlands
            North of England
            Scotland
            Wales
            Northern Ireland
            Africa
            India
            A foreign accent

        6 Phrases
            Assimilation
            Elision
            Epenthesis
            Liaison

Part 2 will be put online in another blog post.

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