{"id":891,"date":"2010-09-27T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=891"},"modified":"2010-07-21T10:06:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T08:06:49","slug":"an-introduction-to-french-pronunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"An introduction to French pronunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>An introduction to French pronunciation<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong> 2nd edn. By <strong>Glanville Price<\/strong>. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. Pp. ix, 176. ISBN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/introduction-to-french-pronunciation\/oclc\/57251076&amp;referer=brief_results\">9781405132558<\/a>. $36.95.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Reviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fp.ulaval.ca\/personnel\/personne_details.aspx?person_id=540\"><strong>Yves Laberge<\/strong><\/a>, <em>Universit\u00e9 Laval, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this second edition of a hard-to-find book from 1991, Glanville Price provides countless tips and advice for English-speaking learners of French. P identifies the typical problems English native speakers face when pronouncing French words. The twenty short chapters are all written in English.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a book for beginners but rather for advanced learners of French who can use phonetic symbols to learn the rules of pronunciation and articulation. Every section highlights important considerations and notable exceptions, such as \u2018The mute <em>e<\/em>\u2019 (Ch. 11) and \u2018Liaison\u2019 (Ch. 19). Remarks are timely and often intercept possible questions\u2014for example, the discussion of liaison provides examples of words that have no special liaison form (136). P does not reinvent French pronunciation; instead, he humbly relies on previous work and classic references such as Pierre Fouch\u00e9\u2019s <em>Trait\u00e9 de prononciation fran\u00e7aise<\/em> (Paris: Klincksieck, 1969). Unfortunately, no cassette, CD, or CD-ROM accompanies this short text.<\/p>\n<p>Although P includes some examples of French-Canadian pronunciation and briefly mentions some Canadianisms, he does not refer to any books written by Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois linguists: only Douglas Walker\u2019s <em>The pronunciation of Canadian French<\/em> (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1984) is referenced. Perhaps P chose to rely solely on sources written in English.<\/p>\n<p>A quite useful index of about 700 entries provides the page number where a specific French word is explained. Because the article <em>le<\/em> has countless references and explanations, it also has almost a dozen entries. Furthermore, a few difficult French words (e.g. <em>moyen<\/em> \u2018means\u2019) as well as some famous city names such as <em>Rome<\/em> are also studied. The most interesting examples are often for the many words that are spelled identically in both English and French but are pronounced in different ways (e.g. <em>nuance<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Despite its scholarly tone, this volume remains a useful and inexpensive book for Anglophones who need assistance with the rules of French pronunciation. Linguists and teachers of French will appreciate its precision and conciseness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An introduction to French pronunciation. 2nd edn. By Glanville Price. 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