500 Questions and Answers on English Pronunciation and How to Teach it in West Africa
by B. Siertsema.
Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1959
(87 pages)
Methods of Teaching --;The Teaching of Intonation --;Tone Marking --;The Use of Phonetic Transcription --;List of Phonetic Symbols --;Specimens of Phonetic Transcription --;Questions --;Answers --;I. General Phonetics --;II. Monophthongs --;III. Diphthongs --;IV. Triphthongs and Semi-vowels --;V. Nasalized and Nasal --;VI. 'Vowellikes' and the Syllable --;VII. Glottal Sounds and Phonemes --;VIII. The Beginning and Ending of Vowels --;IX. L --;X.R --;XL Alveolar, Palato-Alveolar and Palatal Sounds --;XII. Plosives --;XIII. Th --;XIV. Assimilation --;XV. Inflectional Endings --;XVI. Word Stress --;XVII. Sentence Stress and Intonation --;XVIII. Spelling (Vowels) --;XIX. Spelling (Consonants) --;XX. Some 'Real' Examinations.
If Phonetics is a comparatively recent subject for European students of foreign languages and is eyed by them with some sus- picion as an invention that is meant to make their studies difficult, it is even more so with English Phonetics for African students.