Studies In The Pronunciation Of English: A Commemorative Volume In Honour Of A. C. Gimson

Section I: Prosody 1. Tone in English: Discoursal or Attitudinal? The Case of Falling Tags Alan Cruttenden 2. The Compound Fall-rise: The Case For and Against Charles Gussenhoven 3. Intonation Relations in Discourse Jill House 4. Stress and Rhythm J. R. Baldwin. Section II: Segmentality 5. Old English Short Vowels Before Nasals Nils Davidsen-Nielsen 6. Linguistic Principles in Text-to-Speech Reprocessing John Laver 7. Rhythmic Variation in English Word Forms J. Windsor Lewis. Section III: Received Pronunciation 8. R.P.: Fact and Fiction Susan Ramsaran 9. // in English Andr Martinet 10.The Sociolinguistics of R.P. Howard Giles and Nikolas Coupland. Section IV: Non-R.P. English 11. The Pronunciation of English in India R. K. Bansal 12. Vowel Qualities in Tyneside English John Local 13. North German Pronunciation of English Hiltrud Martens 14. Teaching the English Vowel System to Shona Speakers A.J.C. Pongweni 15. Stress and Intonation and the Intelligibility of South African Black English L.W. Lanham 16. The Vowel System in Standard South African English Roger Lass. Section V: Phonology 17. The Influence of Considering Universals in Expressing the Phonotactics of English P. Ashby and M. C. Ashby 18. The History of Pronunciation in English Language Dictionaries Arthur Bronstein 19. The Lexical Phonology of Vowel Length in English John Harris 20. GB/US Vowel Systems: Loan-Word Evidence G. Lindsey 21. Some Vowel Systems of American English William Moulton 22. Stress and Syllabicity J. C. Wells 23. The Description of Connected Speech Processes F. Nolan and P. Kerswill 24. Phonaesthesia and Phonotactics: The Power of Folk-Lexicology K. Wales 25. Phonological Reductions in Connected Speech W. D. Bald.