Practical English Phonetics and Phonology

This fifth edition of Practical English Phonetics and Phonology has been revised and updated throughout.

List of figures
List of tables
Audio recordings (on companion website)
Prefaces
Phonemic symbols
A Segments
A1 British and American English
A2 Phoneme, allophone, syllable
A3 How we produce speech
A4 Consonant possibilities
A5 English obstruents
A6 English sonorants
A7 Vowel possibilities
A8 The English short vowels
A9 The English long vowels
A10 The English diphthongs and vowels + /r/
B Supra-segmental features
B1 Phoneme and syllable revisited
B2 Word stress
B3 Sentence stress
B4 Features of connected speech
B5 Speech melody
B6 Pronunciation change
B7 Teaching English pronunciation
B8 Learning a foreign language
C Accents of English
C1 Accent variation: GB and GA
C2 Accents of the British Isles 1: England
C3 Accents of the British Isles 2: Celtic-influenced varieties
C4 World accent varieties 1: North America
C5 World accent varieties 2: the Southern Hemisphere
C6 World accent varieties 3: second-language varieties and creole-influenced speech
Glossary
Further reading
References
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Index