1.Introduction 1
1.1 Why and How to Study English Phontics 1
1.The Organs of Speed 6
1.2 Organs of Speech 6
1.3 Vowels and Consonants and Their Classification 8
1.4 Phonetic Transcription and the IPA 12
1.5 Received Pronunciation and General British(GB) 13
1.6 Putonghua(the Common Speech)and the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet 14
Tables 17
1.A Brief Summary of the Findals＆Initials 17
2.The Chinese Phonetic Alphabet 18
3.Putonshua Speeal Sounds in the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet(CPA)Internetional Phonetic Alphabet(IPA) 19
1.7 A General Survey of English and Chinese Phonetic Systems 20
2.English Phonemes 24
2.1 Nature and Classification of Monophthongs 24
2.Tongue Position of the English Pure Vowels 25
2.2 The Front Vowels＆the Plosives 26
4.Lip Position of/i:,i,e,？/ 27
3.Tongue Position of/i:,i,e,？/ 27
5.Tongue Position of the Chinese[i]and the English/i:/ 28
6.Tongue Position of/e/ 30
7.Tongue Position of/？/ 31
8.Bialbial,Alveolar,Velar Plosives 32
9.Tongue Position of/α:,？,？:,u,u:/ 37
2.3 Back Vowels 37
10.Tongue and Lip Position of/α:/ 38
11.Tongue Position of the Chinese(α)and the English/α:/ 39
12.Tomgue and Lip Position of / ？/ 40
14.Tongue Position of the English/？:/and the Chinese[o] 41
13.Tongue and Lip Position of/？:/ 41
15.Tongue and Lip Position of/u/ 42
17.Comparison of the Tongue Position of/u:/and/u/ 43
16.Tongue and Lip Position of/u:/ 43
18.Tongue Position of the Chinese[u]and the English/z:,u/ 44
2.4 Central Vowels and Fricatives 46
19.Tongue and Lip Positon of/Λ/ 47
20.Comparison of the Enghish/Λ/and the Chinese[A] 47
21.Tongue and Lip Position of/？:/ 48
22.Comparison of the Tongue Position of the Chinese[？][o]and the English/？:/ 49
23.Tongue Position of/？/and/？:/ 50
4.Place of Articulation 51
24.Tongue and Lip Positions of the English Dental,Alveolar,and Palato-alveolar Fricatives 51
2.5 Nature and Classification of Diphthongs 59
2.6 The Closing Diphthongs＆the Fricatives/∫,？/ 60
25.The Closing Diphthongs 61
26.Different Tongue Positons of the Chinese(sh)[？]and the English/∫/ 65
2.7 Centring Diphthongs＆Affricates 68
27.The Centring Diphthongs/i？,？,u？/ 69
28.Comparison of the Tongue Positon of the Chinese(zh,ch)[t？,t？']and the English/t∫,d3/ 72
2.8 Summary of Vowels/Semi-vowels/Lateral/Nasals 77
29.The Tongue Positions of the English Monoph-thongs Compared with those of Chinese Monophthongs 77
30.The Tongue Glide of the English Diphthonps 78
5.The English RP Vowels 78
31.English Vowel Formation 79
6.The Chinese Vowels 80
32.Comparison of the Tongue Position of Clear/1/and Dark/1/ 82
33.Tongue Position of the English/n/and/η/ 84
2.9 Consonants/r/,/tr/and/dr/ 88
34.Positions of Speech Organs for English Consonants 91
7.English＆Chinese Consonant Phonemes 92
2.10 Consonant Clusters 95
3.1 Assimilation 107
3.Variations of Sounds in Connected speech 107
3.2 Elision 111
3.3 Liaison 114
3.4 Weakening 117
8.A list of Strong and Weak Forms 123
4.1 The Nature of English Stress 133
4.Stress in the English Language 133
4.2 Degrees of English Stress 134
4.3 Word Stress 136
4.4 Variation of the Word's Accentual Pattern:Stress Shift 163
4.5 Chinese Word Stress Features 171
35.Pitch Contour of the 4 Tones in Chinese 173
9.16 Normal Tone Combinations of Two Syllable Words in Putonghua(Standard Chinese) 177
10.Pitch Patterns of the Neutral Tone 181
4.6 Utterance Stress 183
5.1 English Rhythm 224
5.Rhythm 224
5.2 The Rhythmic Unit 226
5.3 The Delivery of Rhythmic Units 228
5.4 Variation in Rhythmicity 240
5.5 Rhythm in Chinese Language 241
5.6 Concluding Remarks about Rhythm 244
5.7 Problems with Chinese Students of English in Stressing and Rhythm 245
5.8 Stress,Rhythm and Intonation 246
6.1 Intonation and Tone 249
6.English Intonation:Its Form and Function 249
6.2 Basic Types of English Tone as Compared With Those of Chinese 251
6.3 Tone Language as Compared With Intonation Language 260
6.4 Implications and Uses of Basic English Tones 261
6.5 The Tone-unit(or Tune) 276
6.6 Functions of Intonation 295
Key to Exercises 320
Bibliography 326