ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the teaching of phonetics and phonology as part of a wider programme of study, such as a degree in Linguistics or English Language. An annotated corpus of speech can provide a bridge between textbook illustrations and natural speech. By using such a corpus, prosodically transcribed by experts, it is possible to deal with many practical issues despite the relative lack of expertise of the students. Students can investigate the relationship between tone groups and syntax, discovering that the majority of prosodic boundaries co-occur with a syntactic boundary. One possible disadvantage of using corpus data, whether spoken or written, is the element of unpredictability which comes with real data. There are several corpora of naturally occurring spoken language, but only few have been annotated prosodically. These include the London Lund Corpus, the Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus and the Corpus of Spoken American English.
