Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The production of speech sounds -- Long vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs -- Voicing and consonants -- Phonemes and symbols -- Fricatives and affricates -- Nasals and other consonants -- The syllable -- Strong and weak syllables -- Stress in simple words -- Complex word stress -- Weak forms -- Problems in phonemic analysis -- Aspects of connected speech -- Intonation 1 -- Intonation 2 -- Intonation 3 -- Functions of intonation 1 -- Functions of intonation 2 -- Varieties of English pronunciation -- Recorded exercises -- Answers to written exercises.

Bridging the gap between simple pronunciation handbooks and technical phonetics and phonology textbooks, this new edition takes into account recent developments in the teaching of phonology.