TY - BOOK AU - Edwards,Harold T. TI - Applied phonetics: the sounds of American English SN - 0769302602 AV - PE2815 .E47 2003 U1 - 421.54 PY - 2003///] CY - Clifton Park, NY PB - Delmar Learning KW - English language KW - United States KW - Phonetics KW - Americanisms N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-366) and index; Pt. I; Introduction to Phonetics --; Ch. 1; The Study of Phonetics --; Ch. 2; Language, Dialects, Registers, and Idiolects --; Ch. 3; Classifying the Sounds of Speech --; Ch. 4; Some Applications of Phonetic Theory --; Pt. II; The Sounds of American English: A Resource for Phoneticians --; Ch. 5; The Stop Consonants --; Ch. 6; The Fricative Consonants --; Ch. 7; The Affricate Consonants --; Ch. 8; The Nasal Consonants --; Ch. 9; The Glide, Liquid, and Lateral Consonants --; Ch. 10; The Front Vowels --; Ch. 11; The Central Vowels --; Ch. 12; The Back Vowels --; Ch. 13; The Diphthongs --; Pt. III; The Suprasegmentals --; Ch. 14; Stress, Intonation, and Rhythm --; App. A; Relative Frequency of Letters in English --; App. B; Relative Frequency of Occurrence of Phonemes in English --; App. C; Developmental Data for the Sounds of English --; App. D; Understanding Sound Spectrograms --; App. E; Relative Acoustic Power for the English Phonemes --; App. F; Relative Difficulty of Recognizing the Phonemes of American English ER -