Chapter 1 Acoustics and Articulation
1.1 Speech perception
1.1.1 Definition of speech perception
1.1.2 Acoustic cues
1.1.3 Perception of continuous speech
1.1.4 Theories of speech perception
1.2 Speech production
1.2.1 The stages of speech production
1.2.2 The speech chain
1.2.3 Orga of speech
1.2.4 Articulatory description of speech sounds
Summary
Exercises
Further reading
Chapter 2 The English Pronunciation and Phonetic Tracriptio
2.1 Received Pronunciation RP
2.2 General American GA
2.3 Pronunciation differences between Received Pronunciation and
General American
2.3.1 Vowel differences
2.3.2 Coonantal differences
2.4 Phonetic tracriptio and the International Phonetic Alphabet
IPA
2.4.1 Why do people use phonetic tracription?
2.4.2 Introduction to IPA
2.4.3 Diacritics
2.4.4 Broad and narrow tracriptio
Summary
Exercises
Further reading
Chapter 3 English Coonants
3.1 The manne of articulation
3.2 The places of articulation
3.3 Teaching of coonants
Summary
Exercises
Further reading
Chapter 4 English Vowels
4.1 The Cardinal Vowel system
4.2 The criteria of vowel description
4.3 The classification of vowels
4.4 Teaching of vowels
Summary
Exercises
Further reading
Chapter 5 Phonemes and Phonology
5.1 Phonetics and phonology
5.2 Phonemic system
5.2.1 Phoneme
5.2.2 Phonological rules
5.3 Distinctive features
5.4 Allophone
5.4.1 Phonemic contrast
5.4.2 Complementary distribution
5.4.3 Free variation
Summary
Exercises
Further reading
Chapter 6 Syllables and Suprasegmental Features
6.1 Syllable
6.1.1 Phonological structure of a syllable
6.1.2 Classification of syllables
6.2 Stress
6.2.1 Word stress
6.2.2 Sentence stress
6.3 Strong forms and weak forms
6.4 Length
6.5 Rhythm
6.6 Pitch
6.7 Intonation and tone
6.7.1 Types of intonation
6.7.2 Functio and uses of intonation
6.7.3 Tone
Summary
Exercises
Further reading
References