Background to English Pronunciation

Fülszöveg

This book is primarily intended for B.A. students in Hungarian iiigiier education training to become teachers of Engiish. It includes much less theory - i.e. much less "linguistics" - than a standard university textboolc would, and much more practical material, thought to be helpful for the future teacher.
As a practical textbook for Hungarian teacher trainees, it gives linguistic arguments only as background when necessary. It does not contain much of the phonological argumentation that is normally required at university level. The treatment is selective: it concentrates on the difficulties of Hungarian learners, while it often ignores things that are not important from a Hungarian point of view.
The three main fields covered are phonetics, phonology, and spelling (or "letter-to-sound rules"). These contribute about equally to a good pronunciation, and to good pronunciation teaching, therefore they are given about equal weight. There is less emphasis on phonetics proper than... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This book is primarily intended for B.A. students in Hungarian iiigiier education training to become teachers of Engiish. It includes much less theory - i.e. much less "linguistics" - than a standard university textboolc would, and much more practical material, thought to be helpful for the future teacher.
As a practical textbook for Hungarian teacher trainees, it gives linguistic arguments only as background when necessary. It does not contain much of the phonological argumentation that is normally required at university level. The treatment is selective: it concentrates on the difficulties of Hungarian learners, while it often ignores things that are not important from a Hungarian point of view.
The three main fields covered are phonetics, phonology, and spelling (or "letter-to-sound rules"). These contribute about equally to a good pronunciation, and to good pronunciation teaching, therefore they are given about equal weight. There is less emphasis on phonetics proper than traditionally (i.e. less detail of articulation and methods to eliminate a foreign accent), while more than usual is spent on rules of phonology, and even more on letter-to-sound rules.
The book uses the Gimson transcription, explaining the logic (and some of the limitations) of that system. There are twelve expositive chapters, serving as a syllabus of a one-term lecture course. "Questions for Revision" are provided at the end of each chapter, and a detailed Bibliography appears at the beginning of the volume. The book is based on British pronunciation (RP). Vissza