Transcription Practice for the International Phonetic Alphabet: Exercises for Students of English
This book will serve to help learners transcribe the sounds of English by means of the International Phonetic Alphabet and use phonetic transcriptions of words in dictionaries. It will be of special interest to university students of linguistics and phonetics, since transcription skills will give them a clearer, more systematic picture of English pronunciation and spelling. Because the book assumes no prior knowledge of phonetics, it can be used by anyone looking to improve their pronunciation. In this regard, it will benefit especially those readers who speak English as a foreign language. They will find a rich collection of exercises focusing on a variety of pronunciation phenomena. These exercises feature common fixed expressions such as spitting image; thus, in addition to learning to use the transcription alphabet, learners can also enrich their vocabularies. This handbook is designed for work in the classroom, but thanks to its presentation of solutions and explanations of relevant problems, it can also be used in individual study.
Konrad Szcześniak is Adjunct Professor at Palacký University, Czech Republic, and Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia, Poland, where he teaches courses in Linguistics, Phonetic Transcription, and Descriptive Grammar. His research interests include the use of grammatical constructions in English, Polish, Czech and Portuguese studied within the framework of construction grammar. He also focuses on the development of lexical proficiency and intuition in L1 and L2.
Andrzej Porzuczek is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Silesia, Poland. His research areas comprise foreign language acquisition, interlanguage phonology and practical phonetics pedagogy. His recent publications include an English pronunciation coursebook for Polish learners, a monograph on the temporal characteristics of the Polish learner’s read English speech, and several articles devoted to the prosodic aspects of Polish-accented English pronunciation and teaching practical English phonetics to Polish learners. He has also presented papers at numerous international conferences on phonetics, phonology and foreign language acquisition.
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