《实用英语语音学教程》是一本以实用、普及为目的而编写的英语语音教材，目的是帮助初学者或具有中等水平，但在语音上仍感困难的读者突破英语语音这一难关。本书以深入浅出、通俗易懂的方式教给读者具体的发音方法，采用便于广大读者学习的编写形式，使他们学习语音的过程不至于太枯燥。本书在教授语音时采用自下而上法：即先从切分音位开始到韵律单位的词重音和句重音，最后再到超音段特征的语调教学。

Chapter 1 Introduction

 1.1 Course Objectives

 1.2 Components of Human Speech Production

 1.3 The International Phonetic Alphabet

 1.4 Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American(GA)

Chapter 2 Articulation and Description of English Vowels

 2.1 Monophthongs

2.1.1 Front vowels:/i://i//e//ae/

2.1.2 Central Vowels:/A//a//a:/

2.1.3 Back Vowels:/a://3://3//u://u/

 2.2 Diphthongs:/ei//ai//3i//zu//au//iz//ez//uz/

 2.3 Practice and Exercises

Chapter 3 Articulation and Description of English Consonants

 3.1 Classification of consonants

 3.2 Consonants

3.2.1 Plosives(Stop Consonants):/p//b//t//d//k//g/

3.2.2 Fricatives:/f//v/;/0//6/;/s//z/;/y//3/;/r/;/h/

3.2.3 Lateral:/1/

3.2.4 Nasals:/m/,/n/,/n/

3.2.5 Affricates:/tf//d3/

3.2.6 Semi-Vowels:/w//j/

 3.3 Practice and Exercises

Chapter 4 Aspects of Connected Speech

 4.1 Stress

4.1.1 Word Stress

4.1.2 Sentence Stress

 4.2 Rhythm

 4.3 Assimilation

 4.4 Linking

 4.5 practice and Exercises

Chapter 5 Intonation

 5.1 What is intonation?

 5.2 The forms of intonation

 5.3 Intonation group

 5.4 The functions and uses of intonation

 5.5 Practice and Exercises

Glossary

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