Unit 1 English Friction Consonants 1
Unit 2 English Stop and Affricate Consonants 10
Unit 3 English Simple Vowels 17
Unit 4 English Nasals,Lateral,Frictionless Continuant and Glides 23
Unit 5 English Diphthongs 32
Unit 6 Vowel Length 37
Unit 7 Word Stress in English 42
Unit 8 Sentence Stress in English(1) 47
Unit 9 Sound Linking in English 53
Unit 10 English Incomplete Plosives 58
Unit 11 Pauses and Word Groups 63
Unit 12 Shapes of 3 English Tunes 68
Unit 13 The Intonation of Statements 76
Unit 14 Broken Tunes 80
Unit 15 Consonant Clusters 83
Unit 16 The Intonation of General and Special Questions 89
Unit 17 The Intonation of Tag Questions 95
Unit 18 The Intonation of Imperatives 102
Unit 19 The Intonation of Alternative Questions 107
Unit 20 Strong and Weak Forms 111
Unit 21 The Use of Strong Forms 118
Unit 22 Stress and Rhythm(1) 124
Unit 23 Stress and Rhythm(2) 127
Unit 24 Sentence Stress in English(2) 132
Unit 25 Emphatic Intonation 138
Unit 26 Sentence Stress in English(3) 142
Unit 27 The Intonation of Reporting Phrases 146
Unit 28 The Intonation of Enumerations and Vocatives 151
Unit 29 The Intonation of Exclamations,Apologies,Greet-ings and Leave-takings 156
Unit 30 The Intonation of Coordinate Sentences and Sen-tences Containing Adverbial and Object Clauses 161
Unit 31 The Intonation of Sentences Containing Attributive Clauses and Intonation of Items in Apposition 166
Unit 32 Assimilation,Elision and the Intonation of Sen-tences Containing Noun Clauses 171
Bibliography 182