内容简介
135,000pronuncaitionsofwordsinbothBritish&AmericanEnglishover200graphsshowingpronunciaitonpreferencesofBritish&Americanspeakersstresspatternsforthousandsofcompounds&idiomsmorethan50Spelling-to-soundboxesand35LanguagePanelsthousandsofpropernamespronunciationinthelanugageoforiginaswellasEnglish.
作者简介
JCWellsisEmeritusProfessorofPhoneticsatUniversityCollegeLondonandistheformerholderoftheDanielJonesChairofPhoneticsattheUniveristyofLondon.Hisinterestscentreonthephoneticandphonologicaldescriptionoflanguagesbutalsoextendtolexicographyandlanguageteaching.HedirectsUCL'sannualSummerCourseinEnglishPhonetics.HeisafrequentcontributortoBBCradio(R2,R4,R5,BBCEnglish).BasedinBritainatUCLthroughouthiscareer,hehasovertheyearsgiveninvitedlecturesinmanydifferentcountriesthroughouttheworld.HisbestknownpublicationsareAccentsofEnglish(3vols,CambridgeUniversityPress1982)andLongmanPronunciationDictionary(PearsonEducation,thirdedition2008).