This resource supports TESOL preservice and in-service teachers and curriculum designers in teaching pronunciation more effectively.

Laurie Bauer, FRSNZ, is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of over twenty books including being one of the authors of The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (2013), which won the Linguistic Society of America's Leonard Bloomfield Prize. In 2017, he was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Humanities Medal.

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Part I. Introductory material

1 Introduction

2 The phonetic background

Part II. Mostly phonetics

3 Consonants

4 Vowels

5 Prosody

6 Phonotactics and syllables

7 Extra advice for teachers

Part III. Phonology

8 Sound changes influenced by adjacent sounds

9 Morphophonemics

10 Stress rules

11 Free variation

Part IV. Spelling

12 English spelling

13 Spelling consonants

14 Spelling vowels

15 Names and other difficult words

Reading and References

Index