本书为大学应用型人才培养规划教材，是一本全英文的英语语音指导教材。全书由浅入深地介绍了英语的元音、辅音、语音、语调等基础发音知识，并对重音、弱读、节奏、连读、停顿等超音段内容着重进行讲解和训练。本书的特点在于强调实践性，通过大量的语言实践素材深入浅出地让学习者习得语音，提高语感；注重能力的培养以及知识习得与文化的联系，围绕语音语调问题进行探索性实践，体现其人文性。本书除作为专业学生教材外，亦可作为其他专业学生自学或参考用书。

Introduction
Section A English Phonemes
Unit 1 Front Vowels:Beat,Bit,Bet,Bat
1.1 Warming up
1.2 Making the four sounds
1.3 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 2 Back Vowels:Too Good to Be True
2.1 Warming up
2.2 Making the five sounds
2.3 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit3 Central Vowels:Words Touch Her
3.1 Warming up
3.2 Making the three sounds
3.3 BE and AE accents in /3:/and/a/
3.4 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 4 Diphthongs:Time Waits for No Man
4.1 Warming up
4.2 Making these sounds
4.3 Pairs recognition
4.4 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit5 stops:Played the Guitar in the Pub
5.1 Warming up
5.2 Making these sounds
5.3 Different /p,b,t,d,k,g/
5.4 Spe/t/
5.5 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit6 Fricatives: The Music of Brothers Four
6.1 Warming up
6.2 Making these sounds
6.3 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit7 Affricates: Chips and Orange Juice
7.1 Warming up
7.2 Making the two sounds
7.3 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 8 Nasals and Lateral:Lovely Morning
8.1 Warming up
8.2 Making these sounds
8.3 Syllabic /n/and/1/
8.4 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 9 Approximants:Will You Be There
9.1 Warming up
9.2 Making these sounds
9.3 Spe /r/
9.4 Learning for communication
Exercises
Review
Section B Connected and Communicative Speech
Unit 10 Consonant Cluster:Slip,Slide into Stream
10.1 Warming up
10.2 What is a consonant cluster
10.3 Consonant clusters in speech
10.4 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 11 Syllables and Letters'Reading:One House,Two Houses
11.1 Warming up
11.2 What is the syllable
11.3 Types of English syllable
11.4 How to count syllables
11.5 Strong and weak syllables
11.6 Vowel letters'reading
11.7 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 12 Word Stress:Saturday,September,Thirteen
12.1 Warming up
12.2 What is the stress
12.3 Identification of the word stress
12.4 Three features of the word stress
12.5 Word stress patterns
12.6 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 13 Rules of Word Stress:My Checklist
13.1 Warming up
13.2 Words stress rules
13.3 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 14 Stressed Words in the Sentence:That Is a Question
14.1 Warming up
14.2 What is the sentence stress
14.3 Basic rules for sentence stress
14.4 Clarifying the meaning of sentence stress
14.5 How to read descriptive phrases and set phrases
14.6 How to read phrasal verbs
14.7 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 15 Stressed Function Words in the Sentence:It's Not Me
15.1 Warming up
15.2 Stressed function words
15.3 Unstressed content words
15.4 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 16 Strong Form and Weak Form:What Should I Do
16.1 Warming up
16.2 What is the weak form
16.3 Weak forms of function words
16.4 Contracted forms
16.5 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 17 Rhythm:Through the Day and the Night
17.1 Warming up
17.2 What is the rhythm
17.3 Rhythm patterns
17.4 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 18 Linking and Assimilation:There Are a Lot of Books in the Picture
18.1 Warming up
18.2 What is the linking
18.3 Three types of linking
18.4 Assimilation
18.5 Silent sound
18.6 Elision
18.7 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 19 Phrasing and Pausing:Was That the Question He Asked
19.1 Warming up
19.2 What is a sense group
19.3 Phrase and thought group
19.4 Sense group and pausing
19.5 Learning for communication
Exercises
Section C Intonation
Unit 20 Basic Concepts of Intonation:Isn't It Fantastic
20.1 Warming up
20.2 What is the intonation
20.3 Tone unit,tonic syllable and tone
20.4 Structure of the tone unit
20.5 Learning for communication
Exercises
Unit 21 Function of Intonation:What? Bear
21.1 Warming up
21.2 Main functions of intonation
21.3 Other functions of intonation
21.4 Listening for communication
Exercises
References
Appendix 1 Phonological Terms
Appendix 2 Transcription
Appendix 3 English Foreign Words and Their Pronunciation
Key