The Sounds of English; an Introduction to Phonetics

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... bibliography 366. The following bibliography is intended as a guide to further study, not as an exhaustive list for reference: it aims only at bringing before the student those books which will be directly useful to him at the outset. Full bibliographies will be found in many of the works mentioned below. 367. When the beginner has thoroughly assimilated the contents of this little book, he should go on to my Primer of Phonetics (Oxford, 1906 s), which differs from the present work in dealing with the subject from a more general point of view and with a greater range of sounds and also more concisely and schematically, the phonetic information being given mainly in the form of an explanation of the classification and notation embodied in the Organic (Revised Visible Speech) alphabet, which is employed throughout, with occasional Narrow Romic transcriptions, the Broad Romic notations being employed only in the texts at the end of the book. 368. At the same time--or perhaps before--he should thoroughly familiarize himself with the phonetic structure and phonetic notation of English by reading the texts in my Primer of Spoken English (Oxford, 18952), paying special attention to the laws of gradation and sentence-stress. In my Elementarbuch des gesprochcnen Englisch (Oxford, 1891') he will find the same grammatical introduction, but different texts, more elementary and colloquial on the whole than those in the other book, and better suited for foreigners; in the Elementarbuch division into 'stress-groups' takes the place of the traditional word-division, which is retained in the Primer; stress-division, though less convenient and practical in itself than word-division, has advantages of its own: it ia instructive, and often useful in curing...