1．Introduction 1
2．The Organs of Speech 7
Part One: The English Speech Sounds 9
3．Classification of Speech Sounds 9
4．Classification of Consonants 11
5．The English Consonants 15
1）Fricatives 15
2）Plosives 29
3）Affricates 38
4）Nasals 44
5）Lateral 50
6）Frictionless Continuant 53
7）Semi-vowels 55
8）Exercises in English Consonants 59
6．Consonant Clusters 62
1）Plosive + Plosive 63
2）Plosive + Nasal 65
3）Plosive + Lateral[1] 67
4）Lateral[1] + Consonant 67
5）Exercises in Consonant Clusters 68
7．The English Vowels 69
General Remarks 69
The English Monophthongs 71
（1）The Front Vowels 71
（2）The Back Vowels 77
（3）The Central Vowels 86
8．The English Diphthongs 93
1）The Closing Diphthongs 93
2）The Centring Diphthongs 103
3）Exercises in the English Vowels 108
Part Two: Sounds In Connected Speech 112
9．Strong and Weak Forms 112
10．Assimilation and Elision 126
11．Liaison 132
12．Length of A Sound 138
13．Word Stress 142
14．Sentence Stress 152
15．Rhythm 162
16．Sense Groups and Pausing 174
Part Three: Intonation 177
17．The Structure of Intonation 177
18．Types of Nucleus 182
19．The Uses of the Tones 189
20．Miscellaneous Patterns 216
Material for Intonation Practice 223
Part Four: American Pronunciation And Intonation 228
21．American Pronunciation 228
22．American Intonation 236
Bibliography 243