Publisher’s Note
Preface
List of Phonetic Symbols and Signs
Part I Phonetics and Spoken English
1. Introduction
1. Language
2. The English Language
3. Spoken English in India
4. Learning a Foreign Language
2. The Speech Mechanism
1. A Speech Event
2. The Production of Speech
3. Description of Sounds
3. The Description of Speech Sounds
1. Vowels and Consonants
2. Description of Consonants
3. Description of Vowels
4. Use of Phonetic Symbols
4. The Phoneme, the Syllable and Prosodic Features
1. The Phoneme
2. The Syllable
3. Prosodic Features
5. The Sounds of English: Vowels
1. Vowels in British Received Pronunciation
2. Vowels in General Indian English
3. Differences between the Vowel
Systems of British R.P. and General Indian English
4. Description of the Vowels
6. The Sounds of English— Consonants
1. Introduction
2. Plosives
3. Affricates
4. Fricatives
5. Nasals
6. Lateral /l/
7. Post-Alvelor Frictionless Continuant /r/
8. Semi-Vowels
9. Consonant Clusters
7. Word Stress
1. Word Stress
2. Stress Shift
3. Historical Reasons for Shift
4. Compound Words
5. Stress Change According to Function
6. Word Stress in Indian English
7. Rules for Stress Patterns
8. Features of Connected Speech
1. Stress in Connected Speech: Rhythm
2. Weak Forms
3. Intonation
9. Factors Affecting the International
Intelligibility of Indian English and
Suggestions for Improvement
1. Features that Affect the
Intelligibility of Indian English
Part II Exercises for Practice
10. Vowels
11. Consonants
12. Consonant Clusters
13. Conversations
A Select Bibliography