Part One Introduction 1
Chapter One Significance of Phonetic Acquisition 3
Chapter Two Learning Objectives 5
Chapter Three Phonetic Transcription 7
Chapter Four British Pronunciation and American Pronunciation 8
Part Two Learning Strategies of English Phonetics 13
Chapter One Necessity of Grasping Speech Organs 15
Chapter Two the Pronunciation Rules 17
Chapter Three Strategies of Learning English Pronunciation 18
Part Three Pronunciation 21
Chapter One English Alphabet 23
Chapter Two English Phonemes 24
Chapter Three English Phonemes：Monophthongs 26
Chapter Four English Phonemes：Diphthongs 38
Chapter Five English Phonemes：Consonants 44
Chapter Six Syllable 59
Chapter Seven Rules of Reading 61
Chapter Eight Sound Changes 70
Part Four Rhythm 89
Chapter One Stress 91
Chapter Two Word Stress 93
Chapter Three Sentence Stress 104
Chapter Four Sense Group 114
Chapter Five Pausing 121
Chapter Six Rhythm 126
Part Five Intonation 147
Chapter One Definition of Intonation 149
Chapter Two Functions of Intonation 151
Chapter Three Tone-group and Its Division 154
Chapter Four Intonation Illustration 158
Chapter Five Simple Tunes 164
Chapter Six Combined Tunes 174
References 190