Third Edition. Recognised as the most practical and comprehensive text in the field of phonetics, this third edition of English Phonetics and Phonology includes revised transcriptions, a wider discussion of different varieties of English and an updated treatment of intonation. Contents 1. Introduction; 2. The production of speech sounds; 3. Long vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs; 4. Voicing and consonants; 5. The phoneme; 6. Fricatives and affricates; 7. Nasals and other consonants; 8. The syllable; 9. Strong and weak syllables; 10. Stress in simple words; 11. Complex word stress; 12. Weak forms; 13. Problems in phonemic analysis.