The Dictionary A-Z 1
Key to phonetic symbols for English inside front cover出版前言 3
代序 5
Index to notes on pronunciation and phonetics 13
Acknowledgements 14
Nores on pronunciation and phonetics 15
Affricates 15
A quick guide to the dictionary 16
Foreword to the second edition 18
1 Introduction 19
1.4 Compounds and phrases 19
1.2 Inflected and derived forms 19
1.3 Proper names 19
1.1 Variants 19
1.5 Spelling 20
1.6 Homophones 20
1.7 Opinion polls 20
2 Types of pronunciation recorded 21
2.1 British pronunciation-RP 21
2.2 Other varieties of British English 21
2.3 American pronunciation-General American 22
3 The English phonemic system and its notation 24
3.1 Vowels and diphthongs 24
3.2 Consonants 26
3.3 Stress 26
3.4 Transcription systems 26
3.5 Syllabification 27
3.6 Phonological processes in speech 28
4 Forelgn languages 29
4.1 Names 29
4.2 Transcriptions 29
5 Symbols 31
5.1 Phonetic symbols 31
5.2 Other symbols 33
Articulation 43
Aspiration 47
Assimilation 49
Australian English 57
Breaking 99
Citation form,dictionary entry and connected speech 143
Clicks 147
Clipping 149
Coarticulation 151
Combining forms 159
Compounds and phrases 163
Compression 165
Diphthongs 223
Double consonant letters 237
Double consonant sounds 238
Elision 254
E-mail and the WWW 259
Glottal stop 328
Hard attack 349
Liquids 443
Neutralization 511
Optional sounds 537
Phoneme and allophone 577
R-liaison 627
Short vowel,long vowel 699
Spelling pronunciation 723
Stress 741
Stress shift 742
Syllabic consonants 757
Syllables 758
T-voicing 763
Voiced and voiceless 833
Weak forms 843
Weak vowels 844
Abbreviations 870