Preface for Teachers. Preface for Students. Acknowledgements. Figure 1: The Origins of Speech. Figure 2: The International Phonetic Alphabet. Part I: English Phonetics: Consonants (i): Airstream and Articulation. Place of Articulation. Manner of Articulation: Stops, Fricatives and Approximants.

Exercises. Part II: English Phonetics: Consonants (ii): Central vs Lateral. Taps and Trills. Secondary Articulation. Affricates. Aspiration. Nasal Stops. Exercises.

Part III: English Phonetics: Vowels (i): The Primary Cardinal Vowels. RP and GA Short Vowels. Exercises. Part IV: English Phonetics: Vowels (ii): RP Long Vowels. RP Diphthongs. Exercises. Part V: The Phonemic Principle: Introduction: 'Linguistic Knowledge'. Contrast vs Predictability: the Phoneme.

Phonemes, Allophones and Contexts. Summing up. Exercises. Part VI: English Phonemes: English Consonant Phonemes. The Phonological Form of Morphemes. English Vowel Phonemes. Exercises. Part VII: English Syllable Structure: Introduction.

Constituency in Syllable Structure. The Sonority Hierarchy, Maximal Onset and Syllable Weight. Language-specific Phonotactics. Syllable Consonants and Phonotactics. Syllable-based Generalisations. Morphological Structure, Syllable Structure and Resyllabification. Summing up. Exercises.

Part VIII: English Word Stress: Introduction: Is English Word stress Predictable? Word Stress Assignment, Syntactic Category, and Syllable Structure. Word Stress Assignment and Morphological Structure. Compound Words. Exercises. Part IX: The Rhythm of English: The Foot. Phonological Generalisations and Foot Structure. The Rhythm of English: Stress Timing and Eurythmy. Exercises.

Part X: Connected Speech and Intonation: Reduction, Assimilation and Elision. Insertion of Intonation: Its Form. Tone Groups. The Functions of Intonation. Part XI: Variation in English Accents: Introduction. Systemic vs Realisational Differences between Accents. Perceptual and Articulatory Space. Differences in the Lexical Distribution of Phonemes.

Exercises. Appendix: General Australian English: Defining the General Australian English accent. General Australian Vowels. General Australian Consonants. London English: Identifying London English. London English vowels. London English Consonants. New York City English: Defining New York City English.

New York City Vowels. New York City Consonants. Scottish Standard English and Lowland Scots: Defining SSE and Lowland Scots. SSE Vowels. SSE Consonants. Vowels in the Lowland Scots Dialect. Tyneside English: Defining the Tyneside English Accents. Tyneside Vowels.

Tyneside Consonants. An Overview of some Common Phenomena found in Accent Variation. Suggestions for Further Reading. Index.