Raymond Hickey 
Sounds of English Worldwide [EPUB ebook] 

I Language and Variation
1 Studying variation in sound
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The view from the sound system
1.3 Standards, supraregional varieties and vernaculars
1.4 Research trends in variety studies
1.5 Data sources and analysis
2 The sound system of English
2.1 Phonetics and phonology
2.2 Vowels
2.3 Consonants
2.4 Prosody
2.5 Connected speech
3 Sound change in English
3.1 Analysing change
3.2 Trends in present-day varieties
II The Spread of English
1 The colonial period
1.1 The British Empire
1.2 Settlement of colonies
1.3 The slave trade
1.4 Migration between colonies
1.5 Internal migration
2 Transported dialect features
2.1 Early stages and their effects
2.2 Language contact
2.3 Language shift
2.4 Relic areas and endangered varieties
2.5 Loss of transported features
3 English in the world today
3.1 The two hemispheres
3.2 Major anglophone areas
3.3 Dialects and standards
3.4 Regional epicentres
III Regions and Countries
1 England
1.1 Standard Southern British English¥
1.2 London and the Home Counties
1.3 The South and South-West
1.4 East Anglia
1.5 The Midlands — East and West
1.6 The North — Lower, Central and Far North
2 The Celtic Regions
2.1 Scotland
2.2 Wales
2.3 Ireland
2.4 Isle of Man
3 Europe
3.1 Channel Islands
3.2 Gibraltar
3.3 Malta
4 North America
4.1 United States
4.2 Canada
5 The Caribbean
5.1 Caribbean creoles
5.2 Eastern Caribbean
5.3 Western Caribbean
Jamaica
5.4 Caribbean Rim
6 Africa
6.1 West Africa
6.2 East Africa
6.3 Southern Africa
7 The South Atlantic
7.1 St Helena
7.2 Tristan da Cunha
7.3 The Falkland Islands
8 Asia
8.1 South Asia
8.2 South-East Asia
8.3 East Asia
9 Australasia
9.1 Australia
9.2 New Zealand
10 The Pacific region
10.1 Polynesia
10.2 Melanesia
10.3 Micronesia
10.4 Ogasawara Islands
11 Pidgins and creoles
11.1 English-lexifier pidgins and creoles
11.2 Creoles: theories of origin
11.3 The sound systems of pidgins and creoles
12 World Englishes and second-language varieties
12.1 Foreign language pronunciations
Appendix A Timeline for varieties of English
Appendix B The history of English
Appendix C Transcription conventions
Appendix D Lexical sets and extensions
Glossary
References
Linguistic journals
Index

Raymond Hickey is Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick and Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg and Essen. He has researched varieties of English for over 30 years and has authored and edited several books on the subject, including A Dictionary of Varieties of English (Wiley Blackwell, 2014) and The Handbook of Language Contact, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2020).