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 readingChapter 2 The English Pronunciation and Phonetic Tracriptio 2.1 Received Pronunciation (RP) 2.2 General American (GA) 2.3 Pronunciation differences between Received Pronunciation andGeneral 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 readingChapter 3 English Coonants 3.1 The manne of articulation 3.2 The places of articulation 3.3 Teaching of coonants Summary Exercises Further readingChapter 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 readingChapter 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 readingChapter 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 readingReferences
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