Chapter 1 Description of English Speech SOunds 1.Basic concepts ofphonetics 1.1 Branches ofphonetics 1.2 Main features ofphonetics 2.Phonetic transcriptions 3.Phonemes and allophones 4.Physiology of speech sounds Chapter 2 English Vowels 1.Classification ofEnglish phonemes 2.Description ofvowels 3.Cardinal Vowels 4.Classification of English vowels 4.1 Description ofmonophthongs 4.2 Description of diphthongs 4.3 Description of triphthongs Chapter 3 English Consonants 1.Description ofconsonant phonemes 1.1 Place ofarticulation 1.2 Manner of articulation 1.3 Voicing 2.Description of English consonants 2.1 Plosives 2.2 Nasals 2.3 Fricatives 2.4 Affricates��ts��and 2.5 Approximants Chapter 4 English Sounds and Spellings 1.The notion ofvowel and consonant 1etters 2.English spelling system 3.Sound-spelling regularities 3.1 Vowel letters 3.2 Consonant letters Chapter 5 Syllables and Consonant Clusters 1.Syllable 1.1 Syllable structures 1.2 Syllabic consonants 1.3 Syllable types 2.Consonant clusters 2.1 Cluster constraints 2.2 Characteristics of consonant clusters 3.Syllabification Chapter 6 Word Stress and Vowel Reduction 1.Stress 1.1 Classification ofstress 1.2 Levels ofword stress 1.3 Orthographic representation of stress 1.4 Characteristics of stressed and unstressed syllables 2.Vowel reduction 2.1 Unstressed vowels in open syllables 2.2 Unstressed vowels in closed syllables 2.3 Unreduced vowel 3.Pitch patterns of a word 3.1 Two��syllable words 3.2 Three��syllable words 3.3 Four��syllable words 3.4 Five��syllable words 3.5 More-than��si)(һsyllable words 4.Placement of word stress 4.1 Two��syllable words 4.2 Three��syllable words 4.3 More��than��three��syllable words 4.4 Prefixes 4.5 Suffixes 5.Stress of compounds 5.1 Noun compounds 5.2 verb compounds 5.3 Adjective compounds 5.4 -ing+noun compounds 5.5 Adverbʮһing compounds Chapter 7 Sentence Stress and Weak Forms 1.Sentence stress 1.1 Basic sentence stress 1.2 Levels of sentence stress 2.Wleak forms Chapter 8 Aspects of Connected Speech 1.Rhythm 1.1 Stress��timed rhythm VS.syllable��timed rhythn 1.2 Rhythm and music 1.3 Rhythm and meter in English poetry 1.4 Rhythm group 1.5 Eurhythmic structure 2.Linking 2.1 Consonant+vowel linking 2.2 Vowel+vowel linking 2.3 Linking(r) 2.4 Intrusive(r) 3.Assimilation 3.1 Direction of agsimilation 3.2 Assimilation in voicing 3.3 Assimilation in place of articulation 3.4 Assimilation in manner of articulation 3.5 Coalescent assimilation 4.Elision 4.1 Elision ofvowels 4.2 Elision of consonants Chapter 9 English Intonation 1.Tonality 1.1 Intonation phrases 1.2 The size of intonation phrases 1.3 The intonation phrase boundary 2.Tonicity 2.1 Stress and accent 2.2 Transcription conventions 2.3 The nuclear placement 2.4 Broad and narrow focus 3.Tbne 3.1 Types of nuclear tones 3.2 The meanings and applications of nuclear tones Chapter 10 Pitch Contour 1.The components of the intonation phrase 2.Pitch range 3.Marking system for intonation contour 4.Pitch contour of prenuclear segment 4.1 The prehead 4.2 The head 5.Pitch contour of nuclear segment 5.1 Pitch contour of faUs 5.2 Pitch contour of risesAnswers to Diagnostic Test References