Chapter 1. Introduction 2. The Organs of Speech Part One: The English Speech Sounds 3. Classification of Speech Sounds 4. Classification of Consonants 5. The English Consonants 1) Fricatives 2) Plosives 3) Affricates 4) Nasals 5) Lateral 6) Frictionless Continuant 7) Semi-vowels 8) Exercises in English Consonants 6. Consonant Clusters 1) Plosive + Plosive 2) Plosive + Nasal 3) Plosive + Lateral [I] 4) Lateral [I] + Consonant 5) Exercises in Consonant Clusters 7. The English Vowels General Remarks The English Monophthongs (1) The Front Vowels (2) The Back Vowels (3) The Central Vowels 8. The English Diphthongs 1) The Closing Diphthongs 2) The Centring Diphthongs 3) Exercises in the English Vowels Part Two: Sounds In Connected Speech 9. Strong and Weak Forms 10. Assimilation and Elision 11. Liaison 12. Length of A Sound 13. Word Stress 14. Sentence Stress 15. Rhythm 16. Sense Groups and Pausing Part Three: Intonation 17. The Structure of Intonation 18. Types of Nucleus 19. The Uses of the Tones 20. Miscellaneous Patterns Material for Intonation Practice Part Four: American Pronunciation And Intonation 21. American Pronunciation 22. American Intonation Bibliography