A First Course of English Phonetics: Including an Explanation of the Scope of the Science of Phonetics, the Theory of Sounds a Catalogue of English ... and Transcription Exercises (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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One of the greatest difficulties for those who take up the study of phonetics is clearly to recognize that sounds have identities Of their own as quite distinct from the letters of the conventional alphabet. For them the various sounds are abstractions, bewilderingly strange and elusive.

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