本书的编写与修订,仍坚持以英语教育专业英语教学大纲为指针,力求科学、准确、简明、实用。然而它并未沿袭一般英语语音书的套路,而是从实际出发,依据简明实用的编写原则,从语音的三要素(节奏、语调、发音),扼要阐述英语语音学的基本理论,力求**突出,要言不繁。
本书每一单元之后,配有单项和综合的习题。相信学生在教师的指导下,通过“语流”的训练,切实打好语音功底以达到提高中学英语师资的语音素养,进而提高其英语交际水平的目的。

前言
第三版序
第三版自序
第二版序
Personal Comment
Introduction
1.English Phonetics
2.Study Method
3.The International Phonetic AIphabet
4.British English and American English
5.List 0f Symbols Used
Part One Pronunciation
Unit 1 Organs of Speech
Unit 2 Cardinal Vowels
Unit 3 Classification of English Phonemes
Unit 4 The English Vowels--Pure Vowels
Unit 5 The English Vowels--Diphthongs
Unit 6 Consonants
Unit 7 Consonants (Continued)
Unit 8 Phonemes in Combination
Unit 9 Consonant Clusters and Incomplete Plosion
Unit 10 Sound Changes in Connected Speech
Part Two Rhythm
Unit 11 Word Stress
Unit 12 Sentence Stress
Unit 13 Rhythm and Its Features
Unit 14 Rhythm Patterns
Unit 15 Sense-groups and Pausing
Part Three Intonation
Unit 16 A Brief Introduction
Unit 17 Basic Tones and Their Training
Unit 18 Tone-groups
Unit 19 Functions of Tunes and Their Uses
Unit 20 Combined Tunes
Unit 21 Reading of Long Sentences
Additional Remarks: Reading as an Exercise in Enunciation
Appendix Ⅰ Rules of Reading
Appendix Ⅱ British English and American English in Comparison
Appendix Ⅲ Glossary
Main References