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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled English Phonetics and Phonology about English, April, McMahon with the genre: Reference, Words, Language & Grammar.
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conversations.value: "the author's story provides an approachable overview of English sound structure, from consonant to and vowel articulation through phonemes, syllable structure and word stress to rhythm, connected speech and intonation. The excellent range of exercises will allow students to make steady progress from segment to sentence, while a final chapter and appendix provide a well-illustrated survey of accent variation." April McMahon, Times Higher Education Supplement
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for the story.. Start with the sentence 'English Phonetics and Phonology
  Cover image: Patrick Henry Bruce, Peinture/Nature Morte, c'.
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conversations.value: English Phonetics and Phonology
  Cover image: Patrick Henry Bruce, Peinture/Nature Morte, c. 1925–6. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Photo © SuperStock. 
  These sound files accompany exercises, the treatment of intonation, and the description of some of the varieties of English given here. They are marked in the margins with a headphones symbol (as shown), and are available at: www.wiley.com/go/carrphonetics
  Each year in the Department of English at Newcastle University, I am given eleven 50-minute lecture slots in which to introduce English phonetics and phonology to around a hundred students in the first semester of their first year on a variety of different undergraduate degree programmes, including English language and literature, linguistics, English language, modern languages, music, history and many others. Also included in the student body are European exchange undergraduates and students taking applied linguistics postgraduate degrees in media technology and in linguistics for teachers of English as a second language.
  Given the range of degree types, this is a daunting task, made even more difficult by the fact that a substantial minority of the students do not have English as their first language. In a typical year, the student cohort will include speakers of Arabic, French, Spanish, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin or Cantonese Chinese, and Thai. Many of the non-native speakers will have been taught RP; others will have been taught General American. Amongst the native speakers of English, very few of the students will be speakers of RP, so that the non-native speakers are more likely to speak RP than the native speakers.
  The vast majority of the student body will take their study of English phonetics and phonology no further, and the one factor which the majority of this diverse band of students shares is that they have no previous knowledge of phonetics or phonology; the course must therefore be ab initio.
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conversations.value: In words such as colonnade and kangaroo, on the other hand, it is the second of the two feet which is the stronger, since it has a secondary stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable followed by a primary stressed syllable:
  Words such as champagne, which have a primary stressed and a secondary stressed syllable, but no unstressed syllables, contain two feet, each of which contains only a strong syllable. However, one of those feet is strong with respect to the other, thus:
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conversations.value: Przewozny, A., Moore, S. and Turcsan, G. (eds.) (2012). The Complete Guide to the PAC Project. Carnets de Grammaire, CLLE-ERSS, Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail.
  For a more detailed account of articulatory phonetics, see D. Abercrombie (1967) Elements of General Phonetics, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, and J. C. Catford (1988) A Practical Course in Phonetics, Oxford: Clarendon Press. An introduction to phonetics which concentrates mostly on English is J. D. O'Connor (1973) Phonetics, London: Penguin. For an introduction to phonetics geared towards English, and with a good introductory coverage of acoustic phonetics, see P. Ladefoged (2010) A Course in Phonetics (sixth edition, with Keith Johnson), New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. For standard descriptions of the RP accent, see A. C. Gimson (1993) An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English, London: Arnold (third edition, ed. by A. Cruttenden).
  For an introduction to English phonetics and phonology which covers, in much greater detail, some of what we have covered here, and more, see H. Giegerich (1992) English Phonology: An Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  For an introduction to phonological theory, see any of the following: P. Carr and J.-P. Montreuil (2012) Phonology (second edition), London: Palgrave Macmillan; J. Durand (1990) Generative and Non-Linear Phonology, London: Longman; F. Katamba (1988) An Introduction to Phonology, London: Longman; C. Gussenhoven and H. Jacobs (2005) Understanding Phonology (second edition), London: Arnold; R. Lass (1984) Phonology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; A. Spencer (1996) Phonology, Oxford: Blackwell; I. Roca and W. Johnson (1999) A Course in Phonology, Oxford: Blackwell.
  The account of English word stress given here owes a great deal to the work of Lionel Guierre and his followers, especially A. Dechamps, J.-L. Duchet, M. Fournier and M. O'Neill (2004) English Phonology and Graphophonemics, Paris: Ophrys. For detailed coverage of English word stress, see E. Fudge (1984) English Word Stress, London: Allen and Unwin.
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conversations.value: , Moore, S. and Turcsan, G. (eds.) (2012). The Complete Guide to the PAC Project. Carnets de Grammaire, CLLE-ERSS, Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail.
  For a more detailed account of articulatory phonetics, see D. Abercrombie (1967) Elements of General Phonetics, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, and J. C. Catford (1988) A Practical Course in Phonetics, Oxford: Clarendon Press. An introduction to phonetics which concentrates mostly on English is J. D. O'Connor (1973) Phonetics, London: Penguin. For an introduction to phonetics geared towards English, and with a good introductory coverage of acoustic phonetics, see P. Ladefoged (2010) A Course in Phonetics (sixth edition, with Keith Johnson), New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. For standard descriptions of the RP accent, see A. C. Gimson (1993) An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English, London: Arnold (third edition, ed. by A. Cruttenden).
  For an introduction to English phonetics and phonology which covers, in much greater detail, some of what we have covered here, and more, see H. Giegerich (1992) English Phonology: An Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  For an introduction to phonological theory, see any of the following: P. Carr and J.-P. Montreuil (2012) Phonology (second edition), London: Palgrave Macmillan; J. Durand (1990) Generative and Non-Linear Phonology, London: Longman; F. Katamba (1988) An Introduction to Phonology, London: Longman; C. Gussenhoven and H. Jacobs (2005) Understanding Phonology (second edition), London: Arnold; R. Lass (1984) Phonology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; A. Spencer (1996) Phonology, Oxford: Blackwell; I. Roca and W. Johnson (1999) A Course in Phonology, Oxford: Blackwell.
  The account of English word stress given here owes a great deal to the work of Lionel Guierre and his followers, especially A. Dechamps, J.-L. Duchet, M. Fournier and M. O'Neill (2004) English Phonology and Graphophonemics, Paris: Ophrys. For detailed coverage of English word stress, see E. Fudge (1984) English Word Stress, London: Allen and Unwin.