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Preface	p. x
Introductory Concepts	p. 1
Articulation and Acoustics	p. 2
Speech Production	p. 2
Sound Waves	p. 6
Places of Articulatory Gestures	p. 8
The Oro-Nasal Process	p. 13
Manners of Articulation	p. 14
Stop	p. 14
Oral Stop	p. 14
Nasal Stop	p. 14
Fricative... MORE	p. 14
Approximant	p. 15
Lateral (Approximant)	p. 15
Additional Consonantal Gestures	p. 15
The Waveforms of Consonants	p. 17
The Articulation of Vowel Sounds	p. 19
The Sounds of Vowels	p. 21
Suprasegmentals	p. 23
Exercises	p. 29
Phonology and Phonetic Transcription	p. 33
The Transcription of Consonants	p. 35
The Transcription of Vowels	p. 38
Consonant and Vowel Charts	p. 42
Phonology	p. 45
Exercises	p. 48
Performance Exercises	p. 52
English Phonetics	p. 55
The Consonants of English	p. 56
Stop Consonants	p. 57
Fricatives	p. 65
Affricates	p. 67
Nasals	p. 67
Approximants	p. 68
Overlapping Gestures	p. 69
Rules for English Consonant Allophones	p. 72
Diacritics	p. 77
Exercises	p. 77
Performance Exercises	p. 82
English Vowels	p. 85
Transcription and Phonetic Dictionaries
Vowel Quality	p. 87
The Auditory Vowel Space	p. 88
American and British Vowels	p. 89
Diphthongs	p. 92
Rhotic Vowels	p. 94
Unstressed Syllables	p. 96
Tense and Lax Vowels	p. 98
Rules for English Vowel Allophones	p. 100
Exercises	p. 102
Performance Exercises	p. 105
English Words and Sentences	p. 107
Words in Connected Speech	p. 107
Stress	p. 111
Degrees of Stress	p. 113
Sentence Rhythm	p. 116
Intonation	p. 118
Target Tones	p. 127
Exercises	p. 131
Performance Exercises	p. 134
General Phonetics	p. 135
Airstream Mechanisms and Phonation Types	p. 136
Airstream Mechanisms	p. 136
Slates of the Glottis	p. 148
Voice Onset Time	p. 151
Summary of Actions of the Glottis	p. 156
Exercises	p. 157
Performance Exercises	p. 160
Consonantal Gestures	p. 163
Articulatory Targets	p. 163
Types of Articulatory Gestures	p. 172
Stops	p. 172
Nasals	p. 174
Fricatives	p. 174
Trills, Taps, and Flaps	p. 175
Laterals	p. 178
Summary of Manners of Articulation	p. 180
Exercises	p. 181
Performance Exercises	p. 183
Acoustic Phonetics	p. 187
Source/Filter Theory	p. 187
Tube Models	p. 190
Perturbation Theory	p. 192
Acoustic Analysis	p. 193
Acoustics of Consonants	p. 198
Interpreting Spectrograms	p. 204
Individual Differences	p. 212
Exercises	p. 215
Vowels and Vowel-like Articulations	p. 217
Cardinal Vowels	p. 217
Secondary Cardinal Vowels	p. 222
Vowels in Other Accents of English	p. 224
Vowels in Other Languages	p. 226
Advanced Tongue Root	p. 228
Rhotacized Vowels	p. 229
Nasalization	p. 231
Summary of Vowel Quality	p. 232
Semivowels	p. 232
Secondary Articulatory Gestures	p. 234
Exercises	p. 237
Performance Exercises	p. 238
Syllables and Suprasegmental Features	p. 243
Syllables	p. 243
Stress	p. 249
Length	p. 251
Timing	p. 252
Intonation and Tone	p. 254
Stress, Tone, and Pitch Accent Languages	p. 260
Exercises	p. 261
Performance Exercises	p. 263
Linguistic Phonetics	p. 267
Phonetics of the Community and of the Individual	p. 267
The International Phonetic Alphabet	p. 268
Feature Hierarchy	p. 272
A Problem with Linguistic Explanations	p. 277
Controlling Articulatory Movements	p. 278
Memory for Speech	p. 281
The Balance between Phonetic Forces	p. 284
Performance Exercises	p. 286
Additional Material for Transciption	p. 293
Suggestions for Contributors to the Journal of the International Phonetic Association	p. 295
Notes	p. 299
Glossary	p. 305
Further Reading	p. 313
Index	p. 317
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