A Course in English Pronunciation: A Generative Framework

Introduction Preliminaries
Pronunciation and Orthography
From Spelling to Sound
Unit One: Consonants
English Consonants
Persian Consonants
Consonant Clusters
Unit Two: Vowels
Vowel Quality
American English Vowels
Persian Vowels
Unit Three: Stress
Degrees of Stress
Key Syllable
Left Syllable
Endings
Terminals
Unit Four: Introduction
Prefix Weak Stress Rule
Guidelines to Locate the Key Syllable
Unit Five: Vowel Quality
English Vowel Letters
Predicting the Sounds of Vowel Letters
Unit Six: Introduction
Vowel Quality of VCL and VCR
Exceptions to VQPs
Unit Seven: Introduction
V Patterns
Guidelines to Identify V Spelling Patterns
Weak Clusters and Strong Clusters
V/VC Weak Stress Rule
A Guideline to Identify the Key
Unit Eight: Introduction
Review of Vowel Quality Patterns and PWSR and VWSR
Unit Nine: Introduction
Strong Sequences
The Key Strong Stress Rule
Vowel Quality of the Key of Word Sets of KSSR
Unit Ten: Introduction
Consonant Corresponding patterns (Con-Cor Patterns)
The Vowel Quality of iV-Sequences
r in long Vowel Patterns
Unit Eleven: Introduction
Long Words
Terminals
Left Strong Stress Rule (LSSR
Unit Twelve: Introduction
Short Nouns Stress Patterns
Exceptions to Vowel Quality Patterns
More Guidelines on the Word Major Stress
Unit Thirteen: Introduction
- ate, - ute, - acy Terminals
Predicting Vowel Quality of Terminals: - acy, - ute, and – ate
The Invisible -y
Short Adjectives Stress Patterns
Unit Fourteen: Introduction
The Vowel Quality of Patterns with i
Consonant Corresponding Patterns (Con-Cor Patterns
Unit Fifteen: Introduction
General and Specific VQPs
Specific Vowel Quality Patterns of VV
Specific Vowel Quality Patterns of VV#
Specific Vowel Quality Patterns of V Key
Specific Vowel Quality Pattern of … y #
Specific Vowel Quality Patterns of Vx Keys
Specific Vowel Quality Patterns of ύcr+S
Specific Vowel Quality Patterns of í in Long Words
Appendix
Bibliography