This is a student’s ground-breaking book on modern standard English. It offers a straightforward, clear, and simple introduction to the English speech sound system, its word structure, its basic syntactic principles, and its semantic network. The book does not require any prior knowledge of linguistics.
Mustapha Moubarik graduated at the University of leeds (UK) where he obtained an MA in Linguistics and English Language Teaching. Later, he did a PhD at the University of Seville, where he has spent most of his career and where he is presently working. Most of his published work is focused on phonetics and phonology.