Practical phonetics and phonology:

1. Introduction; 1.1. English worldwide; 1.2. Phoneme and allophone; 1.3. Connected speech and phonemic transcription; 1.4. How we produce speech; 1.5. Consonant possibilities; 1.6. Vowel Possibilities; 2. Development; 2.1. Phoneme and syllable; 2.2. English consonants; 2.3. English vowels; 2.4. English spelling; 2.5. Features of connected speech; 2.6. Stress and rhythm; 2.7. Speech melody; 3. Exploration; 3.1. Accent variation - General American; 3.2. Accents of the British Isles 1: England; 3.3. Accents of the British Isles 2: Celtic-influenced varieties; 3.4. World accent varieties; 3.5. Pronunciation change: past, present, future; 3.6. Teaching and learning a foreign language; 4. Extension; 4.1. RP -R.I.P.? (David Abercrombie); 4.2. Attitudes to accents (Daniel Jones); 4.3. Pronunciation worries (David Jones); 4.4. Phonetics applied to teaching talk (Peter Ladefoged); 4.5. Making computers talk (Peter Ladefoged); 4.6. Using phonetics in criminal investigations (Maurince Varney); 4.7. The rise of 'upspeak' (Barbara Bradford); 4.8. How children learn the meaning of intonation (David Crystal); 4.9. English accents and their implications for spelling reform (J.C. Wells); 4.10. The sociolinguistics of modern RP (Peter Trudgill). [JR]