Applied Phonetics

The title Applied Phonetics has been given to this book to suggest its main intent: to apply phonetic symbols and nomenclature to the description of the principal varieties of the English language in America and the British Isles. Actually, the name is not entirely accurate in respect to the first part of the book, where phonetic modes of thought and phonetic symbols are given preliminary presentation .without specific application. However, the presentation is reasonably selective, so that although the material is of the nature of general, rather than applied, phonetics, it is less extended than in most general discussions. The remainder of the book can without qualification be called appked phonetics.