Section A: Introduction
1. English Worldwide
2. Phoneme and Allophone
3. Connected Speech and Phonemic Transcription
4. How we Produce Speech
5. Consonant Possibilities
6. Vowel Possibilities
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Section B: Development
1. Phoneme and Syllable Revisited
2. English Consonants
3. English Vowels
4. Features of Connected Speech
5. Stress and Rhythm
6. Speech Melody
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Section C: Exploration
1. Accent Variation – General American
2. Accents of British Isles 1: England
3. Accents of British Isles 2: Celtic-Influenced Varieties
4. World Accent Varieties
5. Pronunciation Change: Past, Present, Future
6. Teaching and Learning a Foreign Language
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Section D: Extension
1. RP – R.I.P? (David Abercrombie)
2. Attitudes to Accents (Daniel Jones)
3. Pronunciation Worries (David Crystal)
4. Phonetics applied to teach the Deaf (Dennis Fry)
5. Making Computers Talk (Peter Ladefoged)
6. Using Phonetics in Criminal Investigations (Maurice Varney)
7. The Rise of ‘Upspeak’ (Barbara Bradford)
8. How Children Learn the Meaning of Intonation (David Crystal)
9. English Accents and Their Implications for Spelling Reform (J.C. Wells)
10. The Sociolinguistics of Modern RP (Peter Trudgill)
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Glossary
Further Reading
References
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Index
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