Part One English Pronunciation and Superstructural Features 1
Unit 1 Front Vowels Central Vowels English Syllables 3
Unit 2 Back Vowels Word Stress 11
Unit 3 Closing Diphthongs Sentence Stress 20
Unit 4 Centralized Diphthongs Weak Form 30
Unit 5 Plosion Loss of Plosion or Incomplete Plosion 39
Unit 6 Fricatives Consonant Clusters 49
Unit 7 Fricatives English Liaison/Linking 57
Unit 8 Affricates Assimilation 63
Unit 9 Nasals Falling Tone 70
Unit 10 Laterals Rising Tone and Rising-falling Tone 77
Unit 11 Semivowels English Rhythms 85
Unit 12 Sense Group and Pausing American Pronunciation 93
Part Two Imitation and Practice 101
Unit 1 Short Passages 103
Unti 2 Famous Speeches 112
Unit 3 VOA＆BBC 136
References 144