tailieunhanh - Gimson's pronunciation of english part 2

Gimson's pronunciation of english part 2. Bài tập luyện ngữ pháp tiếng anh cho mọi người, đây là tài liệu hay và hữu ích có thể giúp các bạn có thể nắm vững được các ngữ pháp tiếng anh cụ thể. | xii Eornoord to tkt Pint Edition 1 have valued the help of Mr. J. D. O Connor and Dr. A. J. Fourdn who have read sections of the book made corrections and suggested improvements. I am also much indebted to Professor Randolph Quirk for his helpful comments on several points of Old English phonology. 1 am most grateful too to Mr. J. C. Wells who has generously allowed me to use unpublished figures resulting from his work on the formants of RP vowels. A. C. Gimson University College London December 1961 Foreword to the Seventh Edition 2008 In this new edition. Chapter 1 has been re-organized and rewritten partly to reflect the modern setting of the book in which phonetics and phonolog - are part of more general language study and partly to overview phonetic variation change and learning as well as the relationship to spelling. At the same time the style of writing in this chapter and throughout the book has been brought into line with current trends in which sentences arc less complex in particular the use of constant sentence downtoning like It might be said been much reduced. In the same spirit of accessibility the sections on historical sources and on spellings for each vowel and consonant have been revised to fit into text boxes which serve to break up sequences of densely packed information. The consonantal articulatory figures in the early editions were originally drawn freehand and were subsequently redrawn on computer since then alterations have been made piecemeal as and when any experimental evidence became available. With the help of Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory and the Churchill Hospital Oxford 1 have now checked all the figures against particular frames taken from dynamic MRI scans of the mouth during the speaking of various English phrases. The satisfying outcome has been that tills has confirmed almost all the existing figures as essentially correct and only a few further alterations have been necessary. The dynamic MRI scans can be .