Chapter Ⅰ Introduction 1
1.Change and stability in English Pronunciation 1
2.Purpose 4
3.Terms 5
Chapter Ⅱ The Organs of Speech 9
Chapter Ⅲ Vowels and Consonants 13
1.The Cardinal Vowels 14
2.The Cardinal Consonants 17
Chapter Ⅳ The English Vowels 20
1.The Front Vowels([？e,？) 21
2.The Back Vowels([？ u,？) 26
3.The Central Vowels([？]) 34
Chapter Ⅴ The English Diphthongs 43
1.The Closing Diphthongs([？ai,au,？i]) 44
2.The Centring Diphthongs([？]) 52
3.The Rising and Falling Diphthongs 58
4.The English Triphthongs[ai？, au？] 59
Chapter Ⅵ The English Consonants 61
1.The English Plosive Consenants([p,b,t,d,k,g]) 61
1)Voiceless Plosion 75
2)Incomplete Plosion 77
3)Nasal Plosion 78
4)Lateral Plosion 80
2.The English Nasal Consonants([m,n,？]) 81
3.The English Lateral Consonants ([l,l]) 85
4.The English Fricative Consonants([f,v,？s, z,？,？,r,hi) 88
5.The English Affricative Consonants[t？,d？,ts,dz,tr,dr] 104
Chapter Ⅶ The English Semi-Vowels([w,j) 113
Chapter Ⅷ Gradation-Strong and Weak Forms 118
Chapter Ⅸ Syllable and Syllable Division 131
Chapter Ⅹ Length of Vowels and Consonants 136
1.Length of English Vowels 136
2.Length of English Consonants 138
3.Lengthening of Consonants and Vowels 138
Chapter Ⅺ Word-Stress 141
1.words with Single-Stress 142
2.Words with Primary and Secondary Stresses 144
3.Word-Stress in Compounds 147
Chapter Ⅻ Sentence-Stress 153
1.Prominence,Reguiarity,Length of Stressed Syllable in Connected Speech 178
Chapter ⅩⅢ Stress and Rhythm 178
2.Types of Rhythm 179
Chapter Ⅳ Intonation 184
1.Unemphatic Intonation 185
1)The Falling Tune-Tune 1 185
2)The Rising Tune-Tune 2 191
2.The Broken Tune-The Accidental Rising 201
3.Breath-Groups and Sense-Groups 205
4.Treatment of Unstressed Syllables 208
5.Sequence of Tunes(Simple Type) 214
1)Tune 1 plus Tune 1 215
2)Tune 2 plus Tune 1 218
3)Tune 1 plus Tune 2 223
4)Tune 2 Plus Tune 2 226
6.Emphatic Intonation 229
1)Emphasis for Contrast 229
(1)High Fall 229
(2)Fall-Rise 233
(3)Rise-Fall-Rise 236
(4)Low Rise 238
2)Emphasis for Intensity 242
(1)Rise-Fall 242
(2)The Scandent Scale 246
7.Compound Tunes 249
1)High-Fall plus Low-Rise 249
2)High Fall(s)plus High Fall 255
3)High Fall(s)plus Fall-Rise 256
4)Use of Marks 260
1)Special Questions 262
8.Special Intonation 262
2)General Questions 264
3)Question-Tags 265
(1)Imperatives 265
(2)Disjunctive Questions 269
4)Parentheses 275
5)Interjections 279
6)Some Idiomatic Expressions 283
Phonetie Vo？y 290
References 302