Linda Shockey addresses questions of intrest to nearly every phonetician and phonologist, providing extensive examples of attested conversational reductions in numerous dialects of English. By presenting the reductions along with their linguistic conditioning factors she strick a forceful blow against the belief that casual speech is simply sloopy speech. Sound patterns of Spoken English will be of intrest to theoritical phonologist and experemental phoneticians, as well as researchers in speech perception, language acquisition and speech technology.
