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The new edition of the leading textbook for English applied phonetics and phonology

A leading textbook for English Phonetics and Phonology, the fourth edition of Applied English Phonology is an accessible, authoritative introduction to the English sound system. Providing clear explanations and numerous illustrative examples, this new edition has been fully updated with the latest research and references. Detailed discussions of fundamental concepts of applied English phonology cover phonetic elements, phonemics, English consonants and vowels, stress and intonation, structural factors in second language phonology, and much more. 

Designed for students and professionals in both theoretical and applied linguistics, education, and communication sciences and disorders, this textbook contains new material throughout, including a new chapter introducing typical phonological development, patterns of simplification, and disordered phonology. Expanded sections explore topics such as contracted forms, issues in consonant and vowel transcription conventions, and regional dialects of American English. The essential introduction to phonetics and phonology, this textbook:

• Presents new and revised exercises, references, and recommended readings
• Covers developmental disorders relevant to the field of speech pathology
• Includes end-of-chapter passages that help students check their phonetic transcriptions
• Features an enhanced companion website which contains instructor resources and sound files for transcription exercises

Written by an internationally recognized scholar and educator, Applied English Phonology, Fourth Edition is essential reading for anyone in applied phonetics and phonology courses, as well as students and practitioners in areas of language and linguistics, TESOL, and communication sciences and disorders.

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The new edition of the leading textbook for English applied phonetics and phonology

"The fourth edition of Applied English Phonology continues to be a must-read for linguistics students, language practitioners (including ESL teachers and speech pathologists), and researchers in English phonology. Written in accessible language (like its predecessors), this new edition provides an in-depth (yet succinct) and up-to-date introduction to the phonological system of English, emphasizing the application of relevant concepts in the field to a variety of disciplines and professions. Applied English Phonology has been required reading in my phonology classes for over a decade!"
Walcir Cardoso, Concordia University, Canada

"This comprehensive book on English phonology for applied linguistic audiences is notable for its extensive coverage. Not only are readers provided with in-depth information on phonological concepts such as segments, syllables, and stress, but they are also given a substantive introduction to phonetics, first and second language acquisition, and the relationship between spelling and phonemes. The main concepts are further enhanced by discussions of sounds produced in other languages and sociophonetic information about other varieties of English. Yavaş also makes special effort to demonstrate how this material is relevant to applied and clinical concerns. The breadth and inclusivity of the topics covered in this book as they relate to applied English phonology makes it stand out."
Lisa Davidson, New York University, USA

A leading textbook for English Phonetics and Phonology, the fourth edition of Applied English Phonology is an accessible, authoritative introduction to the English sound system. Providing clear explanations and numerous illustrative examples, this new edition has been fully updated with the latest research and references. Detailed discussions of fundamental concepts of applied English phonology cover phonetic elements, phonemics, English consonants and vowels, stress and intonation, structural factors in second language phonology, and much more.

Designed for students and professionals in both theoretical and applied linguistics, education, and communication sciences and disorders, this textbook contains new material throughout, including a new chapter introducing typical phonological development, patterns of simplification, and disordered phonology. Expanded sections explore topics such as contracted forms, issues in consonant and vowel transcription conventions, and regional dialects of American English.

Written by an internationally recognized scholar and educator, Applied English Phonology, Fourth Edition is essential reading for anyone in applied phonetics and phonology courses, as well as students and practitioners in areas of language and linguistics, TESOL, and communication sciences and disorders.

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Preface to Fourth Edition x


Note to the Instructor xi


About the Companion Website xii


Abbreviations xiii


Chapter 1 Phonetics 1


1.1 Introduction 1


1.2 Phonetic Transcription 1


1.3 Description and Articulation of Sounds of English 4


1.3.1 The vocal tract 4


1.3.2 Voicing 5


1.3.3 Places of articulation 6


1.3.4 Manners of articulation 7


1.3.5 Voice onset time 9


1.3.6 Vowels and diphthongs 12


1.4 Additional Sounds 13


1.4.1 States of the glottis 13


1.4.2 Places and manners of articulation 14


1.4.3 Secondary articulations 16


1.4.4 Consonants made with non?pulmonic airstream mechanisms 18


1.4.5 Vowels 19


1.5 Cardinal Vowels 20


1.6 Syllables and Suprasegmentals 21


Summary 25


Exercises 25


Chapter 2 Phonology 31


2.1 Introduction 31


2.2 Complementary versus Overlapping Distribution 32


2.2.1 Overlapping distribution and contrast 32


2.2.2 Complementary distribution 34


2.3 Phonemic Analysis: A Mini?Demo 37


2.4 Free Variation 46


2.5 Morphophonology 47


2.6 Practical Uses of Phonological Analysis 49


Summary 52


Exercises 52


Chapter 3 English Consonants 58


3.1 Stops 58


3.2 Fricatives 64


3.3 Affricates 67


3.4 Nasals 68


3.5 Approximants 70


3.6 Sociophonetic Variation 72


Summary 74


Exercises 74


Chapter 4 English Vowels 79


4.1 Introduction 79


4.2 Vowel Set of American English 79


4.2.1 Phonetic properties of vowels 80


4.2.2 Tense-lax 81


4.2.3 Nasalized vowels 82


4.2.4 Length 82


4.2.5 Vowels before /??/ 83


4.2.6 Vowels before /l/ 84


4.3 Front Vowels 85


4.4 Central Vowels 86


4.5 Back Vowels 86


4.6 Diphthongs 87


4.7 Sociophonetic Variation 90


4.8 Non?US Varieties 91


4.9 Full Vowels-Reduced Vowels 93


4.10 Full (Strong) Forms versus Reduced (Weak) Forms of Function Words 95


Summary 97


Exercises 98


Chapter 5 Acoustics of Vowels and Consonants 102


5.1 Introduction 102


5.2 Spectrographic Analysis 104


5.3 Vowels and Diphthongs 105


5.4 Consonants 110


5.4.1 Obstruents 110


5.4.2 Sonorant consonants 118


5.5 Putting it Together 121


5.6 Waveform Analysis 124


5.7 Context 139


5.8 Practical Applications: Some Examples 141


Summary 144


Exercises 147


Chapter 6 Syllables 153


6.1 Introduction 153


6.2 Number of Syllables 156


6.3 Sonority 157


6.4 Syllabification 159


6.5 English Syllable Phonotactics 161


6.5.1 Single onsets 162


6.5.2 Double onsets 162


6.5.3 Triple onsets 164


6.5.4 Codas 165


6.5.5 Double codas 165


6.5.6 Triple codas 165


6.6 Written Syllabification 169


6.7 Syllable Weight and Ambisyllabicity 171


6.8 Practical Applications 173


Summary 176


Exercises 176


Chapter 7 Stress and Intonation 179


7.1 Introduction 179


7.2 Noun and Adjective Stress 180


7.3 Verb Stress 183


7.4 Secondary Stress 185


7.5 Affixes 187


7.5.1 Stress?bearing (attracting) suffixes 188


7.5.2 Stress?neutral suffixes 188


7.5.3 Stress?shifting (fixing) suffixes 189


7.6 Stress in Compounds 191


7.7 Differences between American and British English 192


7.8 Intonation 195


7.9 Variations among the Varieties 199


Summary 200


Exercises 201


Chapter 8 Phonology of L1 205


8.1 Introduction 205


8.2 Pre?linguistic Stage 205


8.3 Babbling to the first words 206


8.4 First 50 words 207


8.5 Systematic Development and patterns of erroneous productions 207


8.5.1 Syllable Structure Processes 208


8.5.2 Substitution Processes 209


8.5.3 Assimilation Processes 210


8.5.4 Co?occurrence of Processes 212


8.5.5 Chronology of processes 213


8.6 Optimality Theory 213


8.7 Implications for Clinical treatment 221


Summary 221


Exercises 222


Chapter 9 Structural Factors in Second Language Phonology 225


9.1 Introduction 225


9.2 Spanish-English Mini Contrastive Analysis 229


9.3 Differential Treatment of Mismatches 234


9.3.1 Basic vs. derived context 235


9.3.2 Deflected contrast 236


9.3.3 Hypercontrast 237


9.4 Markedness 237


9.5 Ontogeny Phylogeny Model (OPM) 244


9.6 Optimality Theory (OT) 246


9.7 Perception 249


9.8 Bilingual Phonology 254


9.9 Loan Phonology 258


Summary 260


Appendix A 261


Turkish-English 261


Greek-English 262


Arabic-English 264


Korean-English 266


Portuguese-English 267


Appendix B 269


Exercises 270


Chapter 10 Spelling and Pronunciation 273


10.1 Irregularity of English Spelling 273


10.2 Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondences in English 275


10.2.1 Consonants 275


10.2.2 Vowels 279


10.3 Morphological Basis of English Spelling 283


10.4 American English vs. British English 285


Summary 287


Exercises 288


Recommended Readings 291


Appendix: List of Sound Files 294


Glossary 299


References 307


Index 319