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