Prof John Wells_'Consonant Clusters, Three Phases of Plosives, and T Glottalling'_UCL Summer Course

Professor John C. Wells gives a lecture on 'Consonant Clusters, Three Phases of Plosives, and T Glottalling' at the University College London Summer Course in English Phonetics 2002, and gives advice on how EFL beginners (including Cantonese, Japanese, Scandinavians, Germans, Hungarians, Poles and others) can ovecome mother tongue (first language/L1) interference (negative transfer). Keywords: consonant cluster, syllable structure, initial consonant, medial consonant, final consonant, checked vowel, free vowel, phonotactic constraint, L1 (first language) interference, syllabification, L vocalization, elision, homorganic fricatives, homorganic plosives, connected speech, three phases of plosives (approach, hold, release), gemination, geminate, nasal approach, nasal release, lateral approach, lateral release, release masking, T glottalling, glotal replacement, British and American English, complementary distribution. References: Wells, John C. (1982) _Accents of English_(3 volumes) Cambridge University Press. Wells, John C. (2008) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary Pearson Education.