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Symbols for phonemic transcription Phonetic symbols and diacritics The International Phonetic Alphabet Preface and acknowledgments Before you start transcribing… PART A: TRANSCRIBING WORDS 1. The familiar consonants /p b t d k ɡ f v s z h m n w l r/ and the vowels /ɪ æ ɛ ə ʊ/ 2. Primary stress, unstressed schwa /ə/, unstressed schwar /ər/, and unstressed KIT /ɪ/ 3. Consonants with unfamiliar symbols /ʃ ʒ ʧ ʤ j ŋ θ ð/ and /t/-voicing 4. The FLEECE /i/ and the GOOSE /u/ vowels 5. The PALM /ɑ/, THOUGHT /ɔ/, SPORT /o/, stressed schwa /ər/ vowels, and DRESS /ɛ/ and TRAP /æ/ before /r/ 6. The FACE /eɪ/, PRICE /aɪ/, and CHOICE /ɔɪ/ vowels 7. The GOAT /oʊ/and MOUTH /aʊ/ vowels 8. FLEECE /i/ and GOOSE /u/ before /r/ 9. Syllabic consonants 10. Secondary stress 11. Inflections and epenthesis PART B: TRANSCRIBING CONNECTED SPEECH 12. Connected speech and liaison 13. Stress and weak forms 14. Elision 15. Assimilation 16. Connected speech: extended practice PART C: TRANSCRIBING INTONATION 17. An introduction to intonation 18. Nucleus and tail 19. Head and pre-head 20. Intonation: extended practice APPENDICES A. Summary of consonant and vowel theory B. Phonetic transcription References and suggested reading Index