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Introduction 1

List of Symbols Used 8

Part One Rhythm 13

Unit 1 Word Stress 13

Unit 2 Sentence Stress 23

Unit 3 Rhythm and Its Features 33

Unit 4 Rhythm Patterns 43

Unit 5 Sense-groups and Pausing 55

Part Two Intonation 63

Unit 6 A Brief Introduction 63

Unit 7 Basic Tones and Their Training 67

Unit 8 Tone-groups 75

Unit 9 Function of Tunes and Their Uses 87

Unit 10 Combined Tunes 100

Unit 11 Reading of Long Sentences 113

Part Three Pronunciation 121

Unit 12 Organs of Speech 121

Unit 13 The Classification of Phonemes 124

Unit 14 Vowels 130

Unit 15 Consonants 153

Unit 16 Consonant Clusters and Incomplete Plosion 173

Unit 17 Sound Changes in Connected Speech 176

Appendix Ⅰ．Rules of Reading 197

Appendix Ⅱ．British English and American English in Comparison 207

Appendix Ⅲ．Glossary 209

Main References 213