List of figures
List of tables
List of tracks on audio CD
Acknowledgements
List of phonetic symbols
A Introduction
1 English worldwide
2 Phoneme and allophone
3 Connected speech and phonemic transcription
4 How we produce speech
5 Consonant possibilities
6 Vowel possibilities
B Development
1 Phoneme and syllable revisted
2 English consonants
3 English vowels
4 Features of connected speech
5 Stress and rhythm
6 Speech melody
C Exploration
1 Accent variation - General American
2 Accents of the British Isles 1: England
3 Accents of the British Isles 2: Celtic-influenced varieties
4 World accent varieties
5 Pronunciation change: past, present, future
6 Teaching and learning a foreign language
D Extension
1 RP - R.I.P?
2 Attitudes to accents
3 Pronunciation worries
4 Phonetics applied to teaching the deaf
5 Making computers talk
6 Secrets of speech sounds
7 Using phonetics in criminal investigations
8 The rise of 'Upspeak'
9 How children learn the meaning of intonation
Glossary
Further reading
References
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Index