Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. To students viii
4. To colleagues xi
5. 1 Sounds, spellings and symbols 1
6. 2 The phoneme: the same but different 14
7. 3 Describing English consonants 26
8. 4 Defining distributions: consonant allophones 39
9. 5 Criteria for contrast: the phoneme system 56
10. 6 Describing vowels 72
11. 7 Vowel phonemes 85
12. 8 Variation between accents 99
13. 9 Syllables 116
14. 10 The word and above 129
15. Glossary 149
16. Discussion of the exercises 176
17. References 186
18. Index 189