The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2012

by Bob Sehlinger

• ISBN13: 9781118012284
• ISBN10: 1118012283
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

With nearly 13 million visitors, the original Disneyland Park#xAE; still ranks as one of America's Top 25 Visited Sites according to Forbes Traveler. Disneyland Park#xAE; and Disney's California Adventure#xAE; continue a 1 billion dollar expansion with new attractions based on the successful Pixar films- new attractions already added to the park include Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, Toy Story Mania, World of Color, and coming soon Goofy's Sky School and The Little Mermaid- Ariel's Undersea Adventure scheduled to debut in Spring 2011. In 2012, Disney's California Adventure#xAE; is scheduled to continue with a 12 acre expansion adding a new land to the park based on the Pixar animated film, Cars.

Table of Contents

Preface to Second Edition

Preface

Note to the Instructor

Phonetics

Introduction

Phonetic Transcription

Description and Articulation of Sounds of English

The vocal tract

Voicing

Places of articulation

Manners of articulation

Voice onset time

Vowels and diphthongs

Additional Sounds

States of the glottis

Places and manners of articulation

Secondary articulations

Consonants made with non-pulmonic airstream mechanisms

Vowels

Cardinal Vowels

Syllables and Suprasegmentals

Summary

Exercises

Phonology

Introduction

Complementary versus Overlapping Distribution

Overlapping distribution and contrast

Complementary distribution

Phonemic Analysis: A Mini-demo

Free Variation

Morphophonology

Practical Uses of Phonological Analysis

Summary

Exercises

English Consonants

Stops

Fricatives

Affricates

Nasals

Approximants

Sociophonetic Variation

Summary

Exercises

English Vowels

Introduction

Vowel Set of American English

Phonetic properties of vowels

Tense-lax

Nasalized vowels

Length

Vowels before /@/

Vowels before /l/

Front Vowels

Central Vowels

Back Vowels

Diphthongs

Sociophonetic Variation

Non-US Varieties

Full Vowels-Reduced Vowels

Full (Strong) Forms versus Reduced (Weak)

Forms of Function Words

Summary

Exercises

Acoustics of Vowels and Consonants

Introduction

Vowels

Diphthongs

Consonants

Stops

Fricatives

Affricates

Approximants

Nasals

Putting It Together

Context

Practical Applications: Some Examples

Summary

Appendix

Exercises

Syllables

Introduction

Number of Syllables

Sonority

Syllabification

English Syllable Phonotactics

Single onsets

Double onsets

Triple onsets

Codas

Double codas

Triple codas

Written Syllabification

Syllable Weight and Ambisyllabicity

Practical Applications

Summary

Exercises

Stress and Intonation

Introduction

Noun and Adjective Stress

Verb Stress

Secondary Stress

Affixes

Stress-bearing (attracting) suffixes

Stress-neutral suffixes

Stress-shifting (fixing) suffixes

Stress in Compounds

Differences between American and British English

Intonation

Variations among the Varieties

Summary

Exercises

Structural Factors in Second Language Phonology

Introduction

Mini Contrastive Analyses

Spanish-English

Turkish-English

Greek-English

French-English

German-English

Arabic-English

Russian-English

Korean-English

Portuguese-English

Persian (Farsi)-English

Differential Treatment of Mismatches

Basic vs. derived context

Deflected contrast

Hypercontrast

Markedness

Ontogeny Phylogeny Model (OPM)

Optimality Theory (OT)

Perception

Summary

Exercises

Spelling and Pronunciation

Irregularity of English Spelling

Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondences in English

Consonants

Vowels

Morphological Basis of English Spelling

American English vs. British English

Summary

Exercises

Recommended Readings

Appendix: List of Sound Files

Glossary

References

Index

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