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| List of Sound Recordings | |
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| Prefaces to the First Edition | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Figure 1 The organs of speech | |
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| Figure 2 The International Phonetic Alphabet | |
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| English Phonetics: Consonants (i) | |
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| Airstream and Articulation | |
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| Place of Articulation | |
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| Manner of Articulation: Stops, Fricatives and Approximants | |
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| Exercises | |
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| English Phonetics: Consonants (ii) | |
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| Central vs Lateral | |
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| Taps and Trills | |
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| Secondary Articulation | |
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| Affricates | |
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| Aspiration | |
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| Nasal Stops | |
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| Exercises | |
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| English Phonetics: Vowels (i) | |
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| The Primary Cardinal Vowels | |
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| RP and GA Short Vowels | |
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| Exercises | |
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| English Phonetics: Vowels (ii) | |
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| RP and GA Long Vowels | |
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| RP and GA Diphthongs | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The Phonemic Principle | |
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| Introduction: Linguistic Knowledge | |
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| Contrast vs Predictability: The Phoneme | |
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| Phonemes, Allophones and Contexts | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| English Phonemes | |
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| English Consonant Phonemes | |
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| The Phonological Form of Morphemes | |
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| English Vowel Phonemes | |
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| Exercises | |
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| English Syllable Structure | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Constituency in Syllable Structure | |
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| The Sonority Hierarchy, Maximal Onset and Syllable Weight | |
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| Language-Specific Phonotactics | |
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| Syllabic Consonants and Phonotactics | |
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| Syllable-Based Generalizations | |
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| Morphological Structure, Syllable Structure and Resyllabification | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Rhythm and Word Stress in English | |
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| The Rhythm of English | |
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| English Word Stress: Is It Entirely Random? | |
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| English Word Stress: Some General Principles | |
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| Word Stress Assignment in Morphologically Simple Words | |
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| Word Stress Assignment and Morphological Structure | |
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| Compound Words | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Rhythm, Reversal and Reduction | |
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| More on the Trochaic Metrical Foot | |
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| Representing Metrical Structure | |
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| Phonological Generalizations and Foot Structure | |
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| The Rhythm of English Again: Stress Timing and Eurhythmy | |
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| Exercises | |
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| English Intonation | |
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| Tonic Syllables, Tones and Intonation Phrases | |
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| Departures from the LLI Rule | |
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| IPs and Syntactic Units | |
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| Tonic Placement, IP Boundaries and Syntax | |
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| Tones and Syntax | |
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| Tonic Placement and Discourse Context | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Graphophonemics: Spelling-Pronunciation Relations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vowel Graphemes and Their Phonemic Values | |
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| Consonant Graphemes and Their Phonemic Values | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Variation in English Accents | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Systemic vs Realizational Differences between Accents | |
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| Perceptual and Articulatory Space | |
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| Differences in the Lexical Distribution of Phonemes | |
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| Exercises | |
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| An Outline of Some Accents of English | |
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| Some British Accents | |
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| Two American Accents | |
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| Two Southern Hemisphere Accents | |
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| An Overview of Some Common Phenomena Found in Accent Variation | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Suggested Further Reading | |
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| Index | |