《英语语音学与音系学实用教程》一书系英国Reading大学语音学教授Peter Roach所著，1983年由英国剑桥大学出版社出版。

本书是为英语专业和语言学专业的学生编写的教材，也可供英语教师以及英语或语言学爱好者使用。书中讲解了英国英语如何发音，并介绍了与此相关的语音学及音系学知识。由于这本书是课本，不是参考书，因此每一章都要认真阅读，并掌握其内容。要理解并掌握书中的重要概念术语。要学会正确的发音，仅仅掌握有关英语发音的知识还远远不够，一定要进行反复刻苦的模仿和练习。

Preface to the third edition

List of symbols

Chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet

How to use this book

1 Introduction

2 The production of speech sounds

 2.1 Articulators above the larynx

 2.2 Vowel and consonant

 2.3 English short vowels

3 Long vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs

 3.1 Long and short vowels

 3.2 Diphthongs

 3.3 Triphthongs

4 Voicing and consonants

 4.1 The larynx

 4.2 Respiration and voicing

 4.3 Plosives

 4.4 English plosives

 4.5 Fortis and lenis

5 The phoneme

 5.1 The phoneme

 5.2 Symbols and transcription

 5.3 Phonology

6 Fricatives and affricates

 6.1 Production of fricatives and affricates

 6.2 The fricatives of English

 6.3 The affricates

 6.4 Fortis consonants

7 Nasals and other consonants

 7.1 Nasals

 7.2 The consonant 1

 7.3 The consonant r

 7.4 The consonants j and w

8 The syllable

 8.1 The nature of the syllable

 8.2 The structure of the English syllable

 8.3 Syllable division

 8.4 Practical conclusions

9 Strong and weak syllables

 9.1 Strong and weak

 9.2 The e vowel ("schwa")

 9.3 Close front and close back vowels

 9.4 Syllabic consonants

10 Stress in simple words

 10.1 The nature of stress

 10.2 Levels of stress

 10.3 Placement of stress within the word

11 Complex word stress

 11.1 Complex words

 11.2 Suffixes

 11.3 Prefaxes

 11.4 Compound words

 11.5 Variable stress

 11.6 Word-class pairs

12 Weak forms

13 Problems in phonemic analysis

 13.1 Affricates

 13.2 The English vowel system

 13.3 Syllabic consonants

 13.4 Clusters of s plus plosives

 13.5 Schwa (e)

 13.6 Distinctive features

 13.7 Conclusion

14 Aspects of connected speech

 14.1 Rhythm

 14.2 Assimilation

 14.3 Elision

 14.4 Linking

15 Intonation 1

 15.1 Form and function in intonation

 15.2 Tone and tone languages

 15.3 Complex tones and pitch height

 15.4 Some functions of English tones

16 Intonation 2

 16.1 The tone-unit

 16.2 The structure of the tone-unit

 16.3 Pitch possibilities in the simple tone-unit

17 Intonation 3

 17.1 Fall-rise and rise-fall tones followed by a tail

 17.2 High and low heads

 17.3 Problems in analysing the form of intonation

 17.4 Autosegmental treatment of intonation

18 Functions of intonation 1

 18.1 The attitudinal function of intonation

19 Functions of intonation 2

 19.1 The accentual function of intonation

 19.2 The grammatical function of intonation

 19.3 The discourse function of intonation

 19.4 Conclusions

20 Further areas of study in phonetics and phonology

 20.1 Laboratory phonetics

 20.2 The study of variety

 Recorded exercises

 Unit 2: English short vowels

 Unit 3: Long vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs

 Unit 4: Plosives

 Unit 5: Revision

 Unit 6: Fricatives and affricates

 Unit 7: Further consonants

 Unit 8: Consonant clusters

 Unit 9: Weak syllables

 Unit 10: Word stress

 Unit 11: Complex word stress

 Unit 12: Weak forms

 Unit 13: Revision

 Unit 14: Elisions

 Unit 15: Tones

 Unit 16: The tone-unit

 Unit 17: Intonation

 Unit 18: Intonation: extracts from conversation

 Unit 19: Transcription of connected speech

 Unit 20: Further practice on connected speech

Answers to written exercises

Answers to recorded exercises

Recommendations for general reading

Bibliography

Index