作者簡介
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.
內容簡介
《朗文英語發音詞典》(精裝)“朗文詞典”是世所公認的品牌詞典，自出版以來，一直深受世界各地讀者的青睞。2004年，商務印書館與培生教育出版集團亞洲有限公司達成協定，決定在中國內地聯合推出“朗文詞典系列”，即《朗文當代英語大辭典》(Longman Dictionary of Language and Culture)、《朗文英語發音詞典》(Longman Pronunciation Dictionary)、《朗文無師自通英語詞典》(Longman Wordwise Dictionary)、《朗文袖珍英語詞典》(Longman Pocket English Dictionary)、《朗文袖珍英語聯想詞典》(Longman Pocket Activator)、《朗文袖珍英語短語動詞詞典》(Longman Pocket Phrasal Verbs Dictionary)、《朗文袖珍英語習語詞典》(Longman Pocket Idioms Dictionary)等。其中，《朗文當代英語大辭典》最具影響力，它把英語學習詞典與百科全書功能合二為一，全球首創。
媒體評論
書評
《朗文英語發音詞典》的創新之處在於，作者在大量調查研究的基礎上對英式英語和美式英語的使用現狀做出了客觀的描述，因此其權威性優於同類其他詞典。商務印書館決定在我國出版此書，對廣大英語教師(特別是教授英語發音和口語的教師)及想要出國留學又擔心自己的發音不夠“地道”的人士將是一個福音，它有益於我國英語學習者學會當代的英語發音。同時，該書還為我國英語教材編寫和英語詞典編纂中對於詞語發音的標註提供了一部不可或缺的參考文獻。
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
