Prof John C. Wells_Workshop: Questions and Answers on English Pronunciation, Stress and Intonation

Prof Emeritus John C. Wells, former President of the International Phonetic Association (IPA) (2003-2007), gives answers to questions on various topics of English phonetics, featuring foreign learners' weak points in pronunciation, stress and intonation. Keywords: compound stress, phrase stress, Daniel Jones, David Crystal, historical change, IPA stress mark, French, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Zulu, consonant, vowel, minimal pair, lexical stress / rhythmic stress, accenting / deaccenting, mother tongue interference, British and American English, /nt/ reduction, rule of three, onomatopoeia, student life, humanities, speech sciences, classics, nursery rhymes, stress-timed rhythm, syllabic nasal, nasal release, Welsh, Japanese, intonational nucleus, High Fall (tone), Fall-Rise (tone), tonicity, early English teaching and learning, syllabification, aspiration, clipping, glottal stop. References: Wells, John C. (1982) Accents of English (3 volumes) Cambridge University Press. Wells, John C. (1990, 2000 and 2008) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary Pearson Education.