朗文英语发音词典

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　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　商务印书馆辞书研究中心
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　2005年元月

J.C.Wells occupies the Chair of Phonetics in the University of London. He was born in Lancashire in 1939. Both at school and as an undergraduate at Cambridge he specialized in Classics， but switched to phonetics as a postgraduate at University College Lo

Key to phonetic symbols for English inside front cover
出版前言
代序
Index to notes on pronunciation and phonetics
Acknowledgements
A quick guide to the dictionary
Foreword to the second edition
1　Introduction
1.1 Variants
1.2 Inflected and derived forms
1.3 Proper names
1.4 Compounds and phrases
1.5 Spelling
1.6 Homophones
1.7 Opinion polls
2　Types of pronunciation recorded
2.1 British pronunciation – RP
2.2 Other varieties of British English
2.3 American pronunciation – General American
3　The English phonemic system and its notation
3.1 Vowels and diphthongs
3.2 Consonants
3.3 Stress
3.4 Transcription systems
3.5 Syllabification
3.6 Phonological processes in speech
4　Foreign languages
4.1 Names
4.2 Transcriptions
5　Symbols
5.1 Phonetic symbols
5.2 Other symbols
The Dictionary A-Z
Abbreviations
Typographical conventions，stress marks，other inside back cover
symbols
Spelling-to-sound guidelines (grapheme-to-phoneme rules) for each letter of the
alphabet are distributed throughout the dictionary， each at the head of the entries
beginning with that letter.
(See also DOUBLE CONSONANT LETTERS; SHORT VOWEL， LONG VOWEL.)
Notes on pronunciation and phonetics
Affricates
Articulation
Aspiration
Assimilation
Australian English
Breaking
Citation form， dictionary entry and connected
speech
Clicks
Clipping
Coarticulation
Combining forms
Compounds and phrases
Compression
Diphthongs
Double consonant letters
Double consonant sounds
Elision
E-mail and the WWW
Glottal stop
Hard attack
Liquids
Neutralization
Optional sounds
Phoneme and allophone
R-liaison
Short vowel， long vowel
Spelling pronunciation
Stress
Stress shift
Syllabic consonants
Syllables
T-voicing
Voiced and voiceless
Weak forms
Weak vowels