Unit 1 Phonetic Alphabet 1
Unit 2 Front Vowels 10
Unit 3 Central Vowels 21
Unit 4 Back Vowels 29
Unit 5 Diphthongs 41
Unit 6 The Plosives 56
Unit 7 Fricatives 69
Unit 8 Affricates 80
Unit 9 Nasal Consonants 94
Unit 10 Approximants 103
Unit 11 Word Stress 113
Unit 12 Sentence Stress 124
Unit 13 Weak Forms 134
Unit 14 Rhythm 145
Unit 15 Intonation 153
Unit 16 Pause 167
Unit 17 Incomplete Plosion 177
Unit 18 Sound Linking 185
Appendix 1 Keys 196
Appendix 2 Technical Terms and Their Chinese Equivalents 220
Appendix 3 References 224