《英语语音学纲要》充分吸纳了国内外学者在英语语音学和二语习得等相关领域的研究成果，以系统、新颖的方式介绍了英语语音，并在继承传统的发声语音学的基础上，增加了声学语音学和感知语音学的内容，使其更具特色。本书语言简洁，例证丰富，所附练习针对性强，为语言学与相关专业的本科生、研究生以及英语教学人员深入学习英语语音、开展语音教学与研究提供了有益的参考。

Acknowledgements

Preface (序)

Foreword( 前言 )

List of figures

List of tables

1 Introduction

 1.1 Phonetics and phonology

 1.2 Spoken and written forms in English

 1.3 Outline of this book

2 Places and manners of articulation

 2.1 The speech mechanism

 2.2 The organs of speech

 2.2.1 The larynx and vocal folds

 2.2.2 The articulators above the larynx

 2.3 Places of articulation

 2.4 Manners of articulation

 Exercises

3 Description and classification of speech sounds

 3.1 Phonetic and phonological description

 3.2 The classification of speech sound

 3.2.1 Vowels and consonants

 3.2.2 Classification of English consonants

 3.2.3 Classification of English vowels

 3.3 The transcription of speech sound

 3.3.1 Board and narrow transcription

 3.3.2 International Phonetic Alphabet

 Exercises

4 Acoustic components of speech

 4.1 The nature of speech sound

 4.2 The sources and filters

 4.3 The acoustic spectrum

 4.3.1 Oscillogram(waveform)

 4.3.2 Fundamental frequency: pitch

 4.3.3 Formants

 4.3.4 Spectrogram

 Exercises

5 Plosives

 5.1 Introduction

 5.2 Phonetic features of English plosives

 5.2.1 Places of articulation

 5.2.2 Force of articulation

 5.2.3 VOT and aspiration

 5.2.4 Voicing

 5.2.5 Release

 5.2.6 Pre-fortis clipping

 5.3 The phoneme/p/

 5.3.1 General considerations

 5.3.2 Spellings

 5.3.3 Sound distribution

 5.3.4 Articulation

 5.3.5 Acoustics

 5.4 The phoneme/b/

 5.5 The phoneme/t/

 5.6 The phoneme/d/

 5.7 The phoneme/k/

 5.8 The phoneme/9/

 Exercises

6 Fricatives and affricates

 6.1 Introduction

 6.2 Phonetic features of English plosives and affricates

 6.2.1 Places of articulation

 6.2.2 Force of articulation

 6.2.3 Voicing

 6.2.4 Length

 6.2.5 Acoustic characteristics

 6.3 The phoneme/f/

 6.4 The phoneme/v/

 6.5 The phoneme/0/

 6.6 The phoneme/6/

 6.7 The phoneme/s/

 6.8 The phoneme/z/

 6.9 The phoneme/I/

 6.10 The phoneme/3/

 6.11 The phoneme /h/

 6.12 The phoneme/tJ/

 6.13 The phoneme /d3/

 Exercises

7 Nasals and appr0ximants

 7.1 Introduction

 7.2 Phonetic features of English nasals and approximants

 7.2.1 Places of articulation

 7.2.2 Vocalic nature of nasals and approximants

 7.2.3 Voicing

 7.2.4 Acoustic characteristics

 7.3 The phoneme/m/

 7.4 The phoneme/n/

 7.5 The phoneme/r3/

 7.6 The phoneme/j/

 7.7 The phoneme/w/

 7.8 The phoneme/r/

 7.9 The phoneme/1/

 Exercises

8 Pure vowels

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Phonetic features of English pure vowels

 8.2.1 Places of articulation

 8.2.2 Vowel length

 8.2.3 Acoustic characteristics

 8.2.4 Acquisition of pure English vowels

 8.3 The Phoneme/i:/

 8.4 The Phoneme/I/

 8.5 The Phoneme/e/

 8.6 The Phoneme/e/

 8.7 The Phoneme/u:/

 8.8 The Phoneme/o/

 8.9 The Phoneme/o:/

 8.10 The Phoneme/D/

 8.11 The Phoneme/a:/

 8.12 The Phoneme/3:/

 8.13 The Phoneme/e/

 8.14 The Phoneme/A/

 Exercises

9 iphthongs

 9.1 Introduction

 9.2 Phonetic features of English diphthongs

 9.2.1 Places of articulation

 9.2.2 Vowel length

 9.2.3 Acoustic characteristics

 9.3 The Phoneme/aft

 9.4 The Phoneme/af/

 9.5 The Phoneme/ef/

 9.6 The Phoneme/ao/

 9.7 The Phoneme/eo/

 9.8 The Phoneme/io/

 9.9 The Phoneme/co/

 9.10 The Phoneme/ue/

 Exercises

References

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