DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH, HEARING & PHONETIC SCIENCES
UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences

Summer Course in English Phonetics 2009


Recommended Reading List

To prepare for the course, you could study one or more of the following. If accepted as a member of the IPA strand, please bring with you the asterisked items*, for use on the course.

  • J.C. Wells, English Intonation: an introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2006
  • *P. Ashby, Speech Sounds. London: Routledge, Second edition, 2005.
  • *A. Cruttenden, Gimson's Pronunciation of English. London: Edward Arnold. Seventh edition, 2008.
  • B. Collins and I. M. Mees, Practical Phonetics and Phonology. London: Routledge. Second edition, 2008.
  • B. Mott, English Phonetics and Phonology for Spanish Speakers. Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2005. (UB 41 + CD).
  • J.D. O'Connor, Better English Pronunciation. Cambridge University Press. Second edition, 1980.
  • P. Roach, English Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge University Press. Third edition, 2000.
  • P. Roach, J. Hartman and J. Setter (ed.), English Pronouncing Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Seventeenth edition, 2006.
  • *J.C. Wells, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Longman. Third edition, 2008