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Anyone have experience with this field of study? I'm also planning on applying this knowledge to data science, as I am getting experience in working with Python for web crawling and visualization. Here are the books I've put together to prepare for grad school:

> 1. Mike Davenport, S. J. Hannahs - Introducing Phonetics and Phonology
> 2. Geoffrey Poole - Syntactic Theory
> 3. Lyle Campbell - Historical Linguistics: an Introduction
> 4. Mitkov Ruslan - The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics
> 5. Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin - Course in General Linguistics

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, not too many places on the internet to ask about this.

Anyone here into linguistics? What stuff are you doing right now?

Here's the books I've put together to prepare for grad school:

> 1. Mike Davenport, S. J. Hannahs - Introducing Phonetics and Phonology
> 2. Geoffrey Poole - Syntactic Theory
> 3. Lyle Campbell - Historical Linguistics: an Introduction
> 4. Mitkov Ruslan - The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics
> 5. Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin - Course in General Linguistics

Learn about phonology, phonetics and the IPA (pic related). From there, I'd start a study of English accents with RP English (Received Pronunciation, the neutral English-sounding accent they use on the BBC, which is a standard reference when one is analyzing English for pronunciation, along with neutral American English).

Take special care to learn about the vowel paradigms used in accents (they will look like characters on a shuffleboard-looking table when you see them, kinda like in pic related) and the schwa (the vowel in the middle of the vowel chart, used as the default vowel in many cases unless otherwise noted and as a filler vowel; the neutral American schwa sounds like how we say 'uh').

After sifting through the literature about the desired accent or dialect and mastering the vowels in it, look next to how they pronounce consonants, and pay attention to special diphthongs used and exceptions to consonant pronunciation. Find out next how the accents smash certain words together, like "coulda" or "g'day" (this usually happens in complement with the accent's vowel paradigm). From there, find out the vocabulary and phrases specific to the dialect or accent, such as "fuggitabuddit".

That's my two cents