內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介: “朗文詞典”是世所公認(rèn)的品牌詞典,自出版以來,一直深受世界各地讀者的青睞。2004年,商務(wù)印書館與培生教育出版集團(tuán)亞洲有限公司達(dá)成協(xié)議,決定在中國(guó)內(nèi)地聯(lián)合推出“朗文詞典系列”,即《朗文當(dāng)代英語(yǔ)大辭典》(Longman Dictionary of Language and Culture)、《朗文英語(yǔ)發(fā)音詞典》(Longman Pronunciation Dictionary)、《朗文無師自通英語(yǔ)詞典》(Longman Wordwise Dictionary)、《朗文袖珍英語(yǔ)詞典》(Longman Pocket English Dictionary)、《朗文袖珍英語(yǔ)聯(lián)想詞典》(Longman Pocket Activator)、《朗文袖珍英語(yǔ)短語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞詞典》(Longman Pocket Phrasal Verbs Dictionary)、《朗文袖珍英語(yǔ)習(xí)語(yǔ)詞典》(Longman Pocket Idioms Dictionary)等。其中,《朗文當(dāng)代英語(yǔ)大辭典》具影響力,它把英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)詞典與百科全書功能合二為一?!独饰挠⒄Z(yǔ)發(fā)音詞典》作為一部專業(yè)性的發(fā)音詞典,將會(huì)對(duì)我國(guó)英語(yǔ)語(yǔ)音教學(xué)產(chǎn)生積極的影響?!独饰臒o師自通英語(yǔ)詞典》注重“產(chǎn)出”(production),突出“無師自通”(wordwise)的特色,是培生新近推出的一部品牌學(xué)習(xí)詞典。我們相信,這個(gè)全新的朗文詞典系列必將受到我國(guó)學(xué)生、英語(yǔ)教師及廣大英語(yǔ)使用者的喜愛。
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2005年元月
作者簡(jiǎn)介: J.C.Wells occupies the Chair of Phonetics in the University of London. He was born in Lancashire in 1939. Both at school and as an undergraduate at Cambridge he specialized in Classics, but switched to phonetics as a postgraduate at University College London, where he became a member of the academic staff in 1962. There he teaches English phonetics, both to native speakers and to EFL learners, as well as general phonetics and phonology and the phonetics of various other languages.
目錄:Key to phonetic symbols for English inside front cover
出版前言
代序
Index to notes on pronunciation and phonetics
Acknowledgements
A quick guide to the dictionary
Foreword to the second edition
1 Introduction
1.1 Variants
1.2 Inflected and derived forms
1.3 Proper names
1.4 Compounds and phrases
1.5 Spelling
1.6 Homophones
1.7 Opinion polls
2 Types of pronunciation recorded
2.1 British pronunciation - RP
2.2 Other varieties of British English
2.3 American pronunciation - General American
3 The English phonemic system and its notation
3.1 Vowels and diphthongs
3.2 Consonants
3.3 Stress
3.4 Transcription systems
3.5 Syllabification
3.6 Phonological processes in speech
4 Foreign languages
4.1 Names
4.2 Transcriptions
5 Symbols
5.1 Phonetic symbols
5.2 Other symbols
The Dictionary A-Z
Abbreviations
Typographical conventions,stress marks,other inside back cover
symbols
Spelling-to-sound guidelines (grapheme-to-phoneme rules) for each letter of the
alphabet are distributed throughout the dictionary, each at the head of the entries
beginning with that letter.
(See also DOUBLE CONSONANT LETTERS; SHORT VOWEL, LONG VOWEL.)
Notes on pronunciation and phonetics
Affricates
Articulation
Aspiration
Assimilation
Australian English
Breaking
Citation form, dictionary entry and connected
speech
Clicks
Clipping
Coarticulation
Combining forms
Compounds and phrases
Compression
Diphthongs
Double consonant letters
Double consonant sounds
Elision
E-mail and the WWW
Glottal stop
Hard attack
Liquids
Neutralization
Optional sounds
Phoneme and allophone
R-liaison
Short vowel, long vowel
Spelling pronunciation
Stress
Stress shift
Syllabic consonants
Syllables
T-voicing
Voiced and voiceless
Weak forms
Weak vowels