As any book of this kind should, this text offers an introduction that clarifies the important distinction between phonetics and phonology. By dedicating a chapter to this topic, Carr demonstrates ...

We begin our discussion of phonetics, the study of speech sounds. The letters in a word don’t always match the sounds they represent, and people can pronounce words in different ways. We begin our ...

In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

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