Applied Phonetics: The Sounds of American English

Part I: Introduction to Phonetics. Chapter 1. The Study of Phonetics Chapter 2. Language, Dialects, Registers and Idiolects Chapter 3. Classifying the Sounds of Speech Chapter 4. Some Applications of Phonetic Theory. Part II: A Detailed Description of the Sounds of American English: A Resource for Phoneticians. Chapter 5. The Stop Consonants Chapter 6. The Fricative Consonants Chapter 7. The Affricate Consonants Chapter 8. The Nasal Consonants Chapter 9. The Glide, Liquid, and Lateral Consonants Chapter 10. The Front Vowels Chapter 11. The Central Vowels Chapter 12. The Back Vowels Chapter 13. The Diphthongs. Part III: The Suprasegmentrals Chapter 14. Stress, Intonation, and Rhythm.