CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Edinburgh: 100, PRINCES STREET New York: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. All rights reserved The Pronunciation of English i. Phonetics ii. Phonetic Transcriptions by Daniel Jones, M.A. Lecturer on Phonetics at University College, London LIBRARY Cambridge at the University Press IN PREFACE N studying the pronunciation of a language two things are necessary, firstly to acquire familiarity with the various elementary speech sounds of which the language is composed and the modes of producing them, and secondly to learn when and in what combinations the elementary sounds are used so as to form words and sentences. This book is accordingly divided into two parts, Part I dealing with phonetics proper, that is the analysis and classification of the elementary speech sounds of the English language, Part II consisting of phonetic transcriptions of passages selected from well-known English authors. In Part I Standard Southern English pronunciation is dealt with in detail and the principal varieties of pronunciation heard in London and elsewhere are described. Part II contains specimens of various kinds of pronunciation and is divided into five sections. Sections I, II and III contain transcriptions of average Standard English (as defined in Part I, § 1), illustrating the careful conversational, the rapid conversational, and (RECAP) 3518 502 NOV 27 909 252002 |