Course in phonetics

　　Preface
　　PART Ⅰ INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS
　　 CHAPTER 1 ARTICULATION AND ACOUSTICS
　　 Speech Production
　　 Sound Waves 5
　　 Places of Articulatory Gestures
　　 The Oro-Nasal Process
　　 Manners of Articulation
　　 The Waveforms of Consonants
　　 The Articulation of Vowel Sounds
　　 The Sounds of Vowels
　　 Suprasegmentals
　　 Exercises
　　 CHAPTER 2 PHONOLOGY AND PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION
　　 The Transcription of Consonants
　　 The Transcription of Vowels
　　 Consonant and Vowel Charts
　　 Phonology
　　 Exercises
　　 Performance Exercises
　　PART Ⅱ: ENGLISH PHONETICS
　　 CHAPTER 3 THE CONSONANTS OF ENGLISH
　　 Stop Consonants
　　 Fricatives
　　 Affricates
　　 Nasals
　　 Approximants
　　 Overlapping Gestures
　　 Rules for English Consonant Allophones
　　 Diacritics
　　 Exercises
　　 Performance Exercises
　　 CHAPTER 4 ENGLISH VOWELS
　　 Transcription and Phonetic Dictionaries
　　 Vowel Quality
　　 Unstressed Syllables
　　 Tense and Lax Vowels
　　 Rules for English Vowel Allophones
　　 Exercises
　　 Performance Exerses
　　 CHAPTER 5 SENGLISH WORDS AND SENTENCES
　　 Words in Connected Speech
　　 Stress
　　 Degrees of Stress
　　 Sentence Stress
　　 Intonation
　　 Target Tones
　　 Exercises
　　 Performance Exercises
　　PART Ⅲ: GENERAL PHONETICS
　　 CHAPTER 6 AIRSTREAM MECHANISMS AND PHONATION TYPES
　　 Airstream Mechanisms
　　 States of the Glottis
　　 Voice Onset Time
　　 Summary of Actions of the Glottis
　　 Exercises
　　 Performance Exercises
　　 CHAPTER 7 CONSONANTAL GESTURES
　　 Articulatory Targets
　　 Types of Articulatory Gestures
　　 Summary of Manners of Articulation
　　 Exercises
　　 Performance Exercises
　　 CHAPTER 8 ACOUSTIC PHONETICS
　　 Formants
　　 Acoustic Analysis
　　 Acoustics of Consonants
　　 Interpreting Spectrograms
　　 Individual Differences
　　 Exercises
　　 CHAPTER 9 VOWELS AND VOWEL-LIKE ARTICULATIONS
　　 Cardinal Vowels
　　 Secondary Cardinal Vowels
　　 Vowels in Other Accents of English
　　 Vowels in Other Languages
　　 Advanced Tongue Root (ATR)
　　 Rhotacized Vowels
　　 Nasalization
　　 Summary of Vowel Quality
　　 Semivowels
　　 Secondary Articulatory Gestures
　　 Exercises
　　 Performance Exercises
　　 CHAPTER 10 SYLLABLES AND SUPRASEGMENTAL FEATURES
　　 Syllables
　　 Stress
　　 Length
　　 Rhythm
　　 Intonation and Tone
　　 Stress, Tone, and Pitch Accent Languages
　　 Exercises
　　 Performance Exercises
　　 CHAPTER 11 LINGUISTIC PHONETICS
　　 Controlling Articulatory Movements
　　 The Balance between Phonetic Forces
　　 The International Phonetic Alphabet
　　 Feature Hierarchy
　　 Phonological Features
　　 Performance Exercises
　　Further Reading
　　Additional Resources
　　Glossary
　　Sources
　　Index