本书除了介绍常规的音素分类之外,对单个音素的形成以及连贯言语中语音的结合规律也进行了详细的介绍,对易混淆的英汉音素进行了对比分析,特别指出相应的典型发音错误,由此总结出有效的正音方法。详细讨论了英语口语交际过程中的常见语音现象,如弱读、省略、同化、连读、节奏、语调以及意群和停顿的关系等。
Part One Sounds of English
Unit One Introduction
1.1 Sound Production: Resonators and Speech Organs
1.2 Manners of Articulation and Places of Articulation
1.3 General Classification of Speech Sounds
Unit Two Vowels and Diphthongs
2.1 Front Vowels
2.2 Central Vowels
2.3 Back Vowels
2.4 Diphthongs
2.5 Exercises
Unit Three Semivowels
3.1 /j/
3.2 /w/
3.3 Exercises
Unit Four Consonants
4.1 Plosive Consonants
4.2 Nasal Consonants
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Part Two Sounds in Connected Speech
Bibliography