The present research sets out to give a melodic description of British English intonation which is so explicit that it can be used for the control of pitch in a speech synthesis system. Intonation is studied in accordance with the principles that have been followed with success in the study of Dutch intonation at the Institute for Perception Research. The description is based on a mixture of acoustic and perceptual analysis of speech samples and, using speech resynthesis as a research tool, any claims made are experimentally verified.

A manual on English pronunciation, its text is organized in three parts. Part one is an introduction of selected features of pitch and stress and an inventory of the vowels and consonants. Part two presents some of the patterns commonly associated with combinations of features of intonation, vowels, and consonants. The final part offers assorted exercises.

Written by two educators with vast experience in teaching phonology to beginning students, this text is designed for both classroom and independent use.

This volume consists of twenty-four papers on variation and language description which were originally presented at the First Annual Colloquium on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English in 1972.

Examines the ways language has changed in the twentieth century. It concentrates on standard English and takes a historical rather than sociolinguistic view of the changes which have occurred.