本書除了介紹常規(guī)的音素分類之外,對單個音素的形成以及連貫言語中語音的結(jié)合規(guī)律也進(jìn)行了詳細(xì)的介紹,對易混淆的英漢音素進(jìn)行了對比分析,特別指出相應(yīng)的典型發(fā)音錯誤,由此總結(jié)出有效的正音方法。詳細(xì)討論了英語口語交際過程中的常見語音現(xiàn)象,如弱讀、省略、同化、連讀、節(jié)奏、語調(diào)以及意群和停頓的關(guān)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
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