A World of Englishes

The view of an Inner Circle phonetician.

Thursday, 29 August 2013

The International Phonetic Alphabet

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I was recently asked to contribute some history and other information on the IPA chart for Babel Magazine 's fourth issue. The text bel...
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Is /ə/ "real"?

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"Is schwa a real phoneme?" asked a first year student, during a preliminary session preparing them for transcription in the second...
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Monday, 13 May 2013

Supper's Ready - let's celebrate!

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I was at the  Steve Hackett  Genesis Revisited II concert in London on Friday, and what a fantastic show it was! Excellent to be transport...
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Friday, 18 January 2013

Nice to see yee!

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At Christmas, we had to switch the television subtitles on for my mother-in-law to be able to "hear" the news effectively. On one ...
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Monday, 14 January 2013

Fun and games with /r/

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Well it's now January 2013 and I haven't posted anything since September 2012.  The good news is that my module "English in the...
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Monday, 17 September 2012

Fresh prints ...

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This isn't exactly a global Englishes-related post but I've explained this once or twice recently so I thought it might be worth bl...
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Wednesday, 12 September 2012

A skiing problem

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Here's an interesting one. One of my PhD students based in SE Asia, who teaches English language proficiency classes among other thing...
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I'm Professor of Phonetics at the University of Reading, UK. I'm also vocalist in a classic rock covers band - Swallow - and I'm a sci-fi nut. Opinions my own.
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