Summer Course in English Phonetics

The course covers all the main aspects of English phonetics:

• phonemic system (vowels and consonants)
• segmental analysis (allophonic processes)
• word stress
• weakening and coarticulation processes
• sentence stress (accent, tonal stress)
• intonation and meaning

You'll investigate the various topics in lectures and in practical classes. You'll look at both speaking and listening.

You'll get plenty of practice in pronunciation performance (sounds in isolation and, more importantly, in connected speech) and in auditory discrimination (ear training).

Practical groups will be kept small (not more than about ten people), and will be streamed according to students' level of ability. We expect to have separate groups at various levels for:

• teachers of English as a foreign language
• undergraduate students of English
• university academics and postgraduates