English Consonant Clusters focuses on the phonetic transcription, stress, and tone of English consonants and consonant clusters. The topics discussed include th

An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.

The book analyzes the articulatory motivation of several adaptation processes (place assimilations, blending, coarticulation) involving consecutive consonants i

This book concisely describes ways in which today's standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciat

The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language whose strongest cross-linguistic patterns are often explained in terms of a universal preferen