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，力求重点突出，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/孟宪忠

第三版序/张凤桐

第三版自序/孟宪忠

第二版序/夏祖□

Personal Comment/Yankai Shi

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