Preface

Teaching Tips and Suggestions

List of Phonetic Symbols and Signs

Part I Introduction

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Why should we learn English phonetics?

1.2 Problems about pronunciation

1.3 Phonemes and phonetic transcription

Chapter 2 Organs of Speech and Classification of Speech Sounds

2.1 Organs of speech

2.2 Classification of speech sounds

Part II English Phonemes

Chapter 3 English Vowel Phonemes

3.1 The cardinal vowels

3.2 Monophthongs and diphthongs

3.3 English monophthongs

Chapter 4 English Diphthongs

4.1 The closing diphthongs

4.2 The centring diphthongs

Chapter 5 English Consonants (I): Plosives

5.1 Classification of consonants

5.2 Plosives

Chapter 6 English Consonants (II) :Fricatives and Affricates

6.1 Fricatives

6.2 Affricates

Chapter 7 English Consonants (III):Nasals, Lateral and Approximants

7.1 Nasals

7.2 Lateral

7.3 Approximants

Chapter 8 The English Syllables and Consonant Clusters

8.1 What is a syllable?

8.2 The English syllable

8.3 How to read consonant clusters correctly?

Part III Aspects in Connected Speech

Chapter 9 Word Stress

9.1 What makes a syllable prominent?

9.2 Levels of stress

9.3 Stress patterns of simple words

9.4 Word-class pairs

9.5 Stress of compound words

Chapter 10 Sentence Stress

10.1 Sentence stress and its functions

10.2 Which words are usually stressed?

10.3 Stress for contrast or special emphasis

10.4 In special cases, content words are unstressed

10.5 Function words may be stressed in certain cases

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