Chapter
1. Introduction
2. The Organs of Speech
Part One: The English Speech Sounds
3. Classification of Speech Sounds
4. Classification of Consonants
5. The English Consonants
1) Fricatives
2) Plosives
3) Affricates
4) Nasals
5) Lateral
6) Frictionless Continuant
7) Semi-vowels
8) Exercises in English Consonants
6. Consonant Clusters
1) Plosive + Plosive
2) Plosive + Nasal
3) Plosive + Lateral [I]
4) Lateral [I] + Consonant
5) Exercises in Consonant Clusters
7. The English Vowels
General Remarks
The English Monophthongs
(1) The Front Vowels
(2) The Back Vowels
(3) The Central Vowels
8. The English Diphthongs
1) The Closing Diphthongs
2) The Centring Diphthongs
3) Exercises in the English Vowels
Part Two: Sounds In Connected Speech
9. Strong and Weak Forms
10. Assimilation and Elision
11. Liaison
12. Length of A Sound
13. Word Stress
14. Sentence Stress
15. Rhythm
16. Sense Groups and Pausing
Part Three: Intonation
17. The Structure of Intonation
18. Types of Nucleus
19. The Uses of the Tones
20. Miscellaneous Patterns
Material for Intonation Practice
Part Four: American Pronunciation And Intonation
21. American Pronunciation
22. American Intonation
Bibliography