Introduction 1
List of Symbols Used 8
Part One Rhythm 13
Unit 1 Word Stress 13
Unit 2 Sentence Stress 23
Unit 3 Rhythm and Its Features 33
Unit 4 Rhythm Patterns 43
Unit 5 Sense-groups and Pausing 55
Part Two Intonation 63
Unit 6 A Brief Introduction 63
Unit 7 Basic Tones and Their Training 67
Unit 8 Tone-groups 75
Unit 9 Function of Tunes and Their Uses 87
Unit 10 Combined Tunes 100
Unit 11 Reading of Long Sentences 113
Part Three Pronunciation 121
Unit 12 Organs of Speech 121
Unit 13 The Classification of Phonemes 124
Unit 14 Vowels 130
Unit 15 Consonants 153
Unit 16 Consonant Clusters and Incomplete Plosion 173
Unit 17 Sound Changes in Connected Speech 176
Appendix Ⅰ．Rules of Reading 197
Appendix Ⅱ．British English and American English in Comparison 207
Appendix Ⅲ．Glossary 209
Main References 213