Unit 1 Introduction and English Fricatives 1
Unit 2 English Plosives and Affricates 12
Unit 3 English Simple Vowels 19
Unit 4 English Nasals,Lateral,Frictio nless Continuant and glides 26
Unit 5 English Diphthongs 35
Unit 6 Vowel Length 40
Unit 7 Word Stress in English 44
Unit 8 Sentence Stress in English(1) 48
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 88
Unit 17 The Intonation of Tag Questions 94
Unit 18 The Intonation of Imperatives 100
Unit 19 The Intonation of Alternative Questions 104
Unit 20 Strong and Weak Forms 108
Unit 21 The Use of Strong Forms 115
Unit 22 Stress and Rhythm(1) 120
Unit 23 Sentence Stress in English(2) 125
Unit 24 Emphatic Intonation 132
Unit 25 The Intonation of Reporting Phrases 136
Unit 26 The Intonation of Enumerations and Vocatives 141
Unit 27 The Intonation of Exclamations,Apologies,Greetings and Leave-takings 146
Unit 28 Assimilation and Elision 151
Appendix Ⅰ Phonetic terms used in this book with their Chinese equivalents 161
Appendix Ⅱ Phonetic Sy mbols used in different dictionaries and textbooks for RP 167
Appendix Ⅲ Pronunciation differences between RP and GA 169