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Chapter 9: Investigating English Phonetics and Phonology

Chapter 9: Investigating English Phonetics and Phonology

pp. 274-289

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, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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In the final chapter of this book, we return to the concept of accent, by looking at how we develop and use our accent across time and space. The chapter then provides you with resources for more advanced study of English and phonology, by presenting a range of online websites and databases with speech samples, as well as movies and TV series to provide exposure to different varieties of English. The discussion then focuses on pragmatic considerations in data collection, including the use of free software programs such as Audacity and PRAAT to record and analyse speech. The chapter then reviews different types of data that can be collected for phonetic and phonological analysis, including word lists, reading passages, and conversational data, with a discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of using each type of data. In the final section of the chapter, you are guided through exercises to check your understanding of the content of the chapter.

Keywords

  • accent
  • World Englishes
  • online resources
  • accents in movies/TV
  • indigenous languages in movies/TV
  • acoustic analysis software
  • data collection tasks

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