English Pronunciation and Phonetics

A Comprehensive Study Course

This book English Pronunciation and Phonetics – A Comprehensive Study Course, highlights the importance of improving English pronunciation and provides a detailed study of Phonetics in the main areas: • How is speech produced? (Articulatory Phonetics or Speech Production) • How is speech written down? (Phonetic Transcription) This book is mainly intended for the students of phonetics, linguistics and who are studying English language. Earlier part of the book contains an introduction to English pronunciation and how it can be improved with the detailed study of phonetics. The description will proceed further to the detailed study about organs of speech divided into three systems Respiratory, Phonatory and Articulatory system. Then in the next chapters the detailed description of the classification of speech sound, their symbols based on the fundamental distinction between vowels and consonants and the way they are produced is covered. You will understand the importance of IPA and Phonetic Transcription. This book will make it easy for you to understand English speech and pronunciation by knowing about syllables, word stress and pitch variation that is intonation. All the important areas are covered in more detail in this book to understand about phonetics to improve English pronunciation. I have included exercises at the end of a few chapters. These exercises are meant to check and enhance the key concepts introduced in the chapters. You will get the answer key to exercises in the end.