List of figures List of tables List of audio tracks on companion website Prefaces and acknowledgements List of phonetic symbols Phonemic transcription key A Introduction English worldwide Phoneme, allophone and syllable Connected speech and phonemic transcription How we produce speech Consonant possibilities English consonants Vowel possibilities English vowels English sound-spelling relationships B Development 1. Phoneme and syllable revisited 2. Features of connected speech 3. Stress and rhythm 4. Speech melody 5. Pronunciation change 6. Teaching a foreign language 7. Learning a foreign language C Exploration
1. Accent variation: General American
2. Accents of the British Isles 1: England
3. Accents of the British Isles 2: Celtic-influenced varieties
4. World accent varieties 1: North America 5. World accent varieties 2: the Southern Hemisphere
6. World accent varieties 3: Second-language varieties and creole-influenced speech D Extension Attitudes to accents (Daniel Jones) Teaching the pronunciation of a second language (Peter Avery and Susan Ehrlich) English accents and their implications for spelling reform (J. C. Wells) Teaching English (David Crystal) Syllabification and allophony (J. C. Wells) Glossary Further reading References Index The International Phonetic Alphabet