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Dr. Rachael-Anne Knight

Senior Lecturer in Phonetics
Department of Language and Communication Science
City University London Tel: 020 7040 8081 email: knight@city.ac.uk or rachaelanne@cantab.net

Phonetics Reading List

Below is a list of books that are useful for students studying phonetics. Click on a link to be taken to the relevant catalogue entry at City University Library. If If all the books you require are on loan you may often be able to borrow and older version which will contain much of the same information. Let me know if there are any books you would like me to add.

Abercrombie, D. (2001) Elements of General Phonetics. Edinburgh: EUP

Ashby, P. (1995) Speech Sounds. London: Routledge

Ball, M. (1993) Phonetics for Speech Pathology. London: Whurr

Ball, M. and Lowry, O. (2001) Methods in Clinal Phonetics. Lodnon: Whurr

Ball, M. and Rahilly, J. (1999) Phonetics the Science of Speech. London: Arnold

Borden, G., Harris, K. and Raphael (1994) Speech Science Primer. London: Williams and Wilkins

Catford, C. (1988) A Practical Introduction to Phonetics Oxford: Clarendon Press

Clark, J. and Yallop, C. (1990) An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology Oxford: Blackwell

Gimson, A. (2001) Pronunciation of English. London: Arnold

Ladefoged, P. (2001) A Course in Phonetics. London: Harcourt Brace

Ladefoged, P. (2005) Vowels and Consonants: an introduction to the sounds of the world's languages. Oxford: Blackwell

Laver, J. (1994) Principles of Phonetics. Cambridge: CUP

O'Connor (1973) Phonetics London: Penguin

Roach, P. (1984) English Phonetics and Phonology: a Practical Course. Cambridge: CUP

Trask, R. (1998) A dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology.London: Routledge

Last Updated 11.01.09