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.