Paul Carley has held posts at the University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, the universities of Bedfordshire and Leicester, UK, and the Fakeeh College for Medical Sciences, Jeddah. He is a regular lecturer on the UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics and an examiner for the International Phonetic Association.

Inger M. Mees is Associate Professor Emeritus at the Copenhagen Business School and a part-time lecturer in the Department of English, Germanic, and Romance Studies, Copenhagen University. She has formerly held lectureships at the universities of Leiden and Copenhagen, Denmark. She is on the academic staff of the UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics.

Symbols for phonemic transcription

Phonetic symbols and diacritics

The International Phonetic Alphabet

Preface and acknowledgments

Before you start transcribing...

PART A: TRANSCRIBING WORDS

1. The familiar consonants /p b t d k ¿ f v s z h m n w l r/ and the vowels /¿ æ ¿ ¿ ¿/

2. Primary stress, unstressed schwa /¿/, unstressed schwar /¿r/, and unstressed KIT /¿/

3. Consonants with unfamiliar symbols /¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ j ¿ ¿ ð/ and /t/-voicing

4. The FLEECE /i/ and the GOOSE /u/ vowels

5. The PALM /¿/, THOUGHT /¿/, SPORT /o/, stressed schwa /¿r/ vowels, and DRESS /¿/ and TRAP /æ/ before /r/

6. The FACE /e¿/, PRICE /ä/, and CHOICE /¿¿/ vowels

7. The GOAT /o¿/and MOUTH /ä/ vowels

8. FLEECE /i/ and GOOSE /u/ before /r/

9. Syllabic consonants

10. Secondary stress

11. Inflections and epenthesis

PART B: TRANSCRIBING CONNECTED SPEECH

12. Connected speech and liaison

13. Stress and weak forms

14. Elision

15. Assimilation

16. Connected speech: extended practice

PART C: TRANSCRIBING INTONATION

17. An introduction to intonation

18. Nucleus and tail

19. Head and pre-head

20. Intonation: extended practice

APPENDICES

A. Summary of consonant and vowel theory

B. Phonetic transcription

References and suggested reading

Index