《现代英语标准发音》第二版为教育部普通高等教育“十一五”国家级规划教材。适用于综合大学和高等师范院校本科基础阶段的学生。2004年10月第一版问世之后，受到了高校师生及专家同行的肯定和鼓励。编者充分考虑两年多的使用经验和反馈意见，并经过长期自我审查，决定保持原来的编写方针与体例，对教材进行修订、充实和提高，

前言

教学提示

吉姆森英语普通型标准发音音标

语调、重音和其他常用符号

1 What is a Good Pronunciation

2 The Model of English Pronunciation

 2.1 The choice of model  

3 Two Stages in Learning English Phonemes

 3.1 Phonemes and their allophones

 3.2 Two stages in learning English phonemes 

 3.3 Clipping  

4 Pronouncing Written Words

 4.1 Letters and sounds

 4.2 Pronouncing consonant letters c and g 

 4.3 Pronouncing sh,ch and gh

 4.4 Pronouncing th 

 4.5 Pronunciation,spelling and word stress

 4.6 Pronouncing single vowel letters 

 4.7 Pronouncing vowel pairs

 4.8 Silent letters 

5 The Lungs and the Larynx

 5.1 The human speech mechanism

 5.2 The respiratory system 

 5.3 The phonatory system

 5.5 Identifying the voiced and voiceless sounds 

 5.6 The linguistic uses of pitch  

6 The Vocal Trac

 6.1 Articulators in the vocal tract

 6.2 Places of articulation 

 6.3 Manners of articulation  

7 Syllables,Stresses and Tonic Syllables

 7.1 Syllables,vowels and consonants

 7.2 Levels of stress 

 7.3 Tonic syllables

7.3.1 Information words and English communication

7.3.2 Structure words and English communication

7.3.3 Tone-units and tonic stress

 7.4 Summary 

8 Front Vowels

 8.1 The cardinal vowels

 8.2 Classification of the English vowels 

 8.3 Front vowels  

9 Central Vowels and Back Vowels

 9.1 Central vowels

 9.2 Back vowels 

10 Diphthongs

 10.1 Closing diphthongs

 10.2 Centring diphthongs 

11 Obstruents

 11.1 The English consonant system

 11.2 Plosives

11.2.1 Bilabial plosives/p, b/

11.2.2 Alveolar plosives/t, d/

11.2.3 Velar plosives/k, q/

 11.3 Affricates

11.3.1 Palato-alveolar affricates/tf,d3/ 

12 Obstruents(2)

 12.1 Fricatives

 12.2 Labio-dental fricatives /f,v/ 

 12.3 Dental fricatives /#,#/

 12.4 Alveolar fricatives /s，z/ 

 12.5 Palato-alveolar fricatives /#,#/

 12.6 Glottal fricative /h/ 

13 Sonorants

 13.1 Nasals

13.1.1 Bilabial nasal/m/

13.1.2 Alveolar nasal/n/

13.1.3 Velar nasal/x3/

 13.2 Alveolar lateral approximant/1/

 13.3 Approximants

13.3.1 Post-alveolar approximant/r/

13.3.2 Palatal approximant/j/

13.3.3 Labial-velar approximant/w/

14 The English Syllable

 14.1 The structure of the English syllable

14.1.1 Syllable onsets

14.1.2 Syllable codas

 14.2 The -s inflectional ending

 14.3 The -ed inflectional ending

  14.4 Syllabification

16 Weak Forms and Rhythm

  16.1 Weak forms

16.1.1 Conjunctions

16.1.2 Pronouns

16.1.3 Verbs

16.1.4 Determiners

16.1.5 Prepositions

16.1.6 There

16.2 Contracted forms

16.3 The use of strong forms

16.4 Rhythm and stress

17 The Intonation Mark System

 17.1 A transcribed text

 17.2 What is intonation?

 17.3 Tone-unit components

 17.4 Reading the intonation marks

17.4.1 Nuclear tone marks

17.4.2 Stress marks in the tail

17.4.3 Stress marks in the head

18 Functions of Intonation

 18.1 The organization of information

 18.2 The realization of communicative functions

 18.3 The demonstration of syntactic structures

 18.4 The expression of attitude

18.4.1 Major declaratives

18.4.2 Minor declaratives

18.4.3 Wh-interrogatives

18.4.4 Yes/No interrogatives

18.4.5 Tag interrogatives

18.4.6 Imperatives

18.4.7 Exclamatives

19  Consonant Clusters

 19.1 Clusters in the onset

19.1.1 CC consonant clusters

19.1.2 CCC consonant clusters

 19.2 Clusters in the coda

19.2.1 Stop + stop

19.2.2 Plosive + nasal

19.2.3 /t/ or /d/+ /1/

19.2.4 Consonant +/s, z,t, d/

19.2.5 Consonant +/0/or/(5/

19.2.6 /1/+ consonant

19.2.7 Nasal + consonant

 19.3 Longer consonant clusters at word boundaries

20 Natural Processes

 20.1 Assimilation

 20.2 Elision 

 20.3 Liaison

 20.4 Juncture 

21 English Prosody(1)

 21.1 Chinese prosody

 21.2 English prosody 

 21.3 Iambic verse

 21.4 Anapaestic verse 

 21.5 Trochaic verse

 21.6 Dactylic verse 

 21.7 Variation in rhythm

 21.8 Truncation 

 21.9 Mixed substitution

 21.10 Less commonly used feet 

 21.11 Run on verse

 21.12 Caesura 

22 English Prosody (2)

 22.1 Rhyme

 22.2 Definition of rhyme 

 22.3 Masculine rhyme

 22.4 Feminine rhyme 

 22.5 Internal rhyme

 22.6 The leonine 

 22.7 Assonance

 22.8 Consonance 

 22.9 Alliteration

 22.10 Rhyme scheme 

22.10.1 Stanzaie verse

22.10.2 The septet

22.10.3 Triplet

22.10.4 The quintet

22.10.5 The sestet

22.10.6 The octave

22.10.7 The Spenserian stanza

22.10.8 The sonnet

23 Teaching Methods

 23.1 Vowels

 23.2 Consonants 

 23.3 Syllables

 23.4 Word stress 

 23.5 Intonation

 23.6 Adjustments in connected speech 

 23.7 Using the pronouncing dictionaries  

Appendix Ⅰ American English Pronunciation

Appendix Ⅱ American English Intonation

Appendix Ⅲ Answers Section

References

Glossary and Index