TY - BOOK AU - BANSAL,R.K TI - SPOKEN ENGLISH: MANUAL OF SPEECH AND PHONETICS SN - 978-81-250-5085-8 U1 - 420,BAN PY - 2016/// CY - NEW DELHI PB - ORIENT BLACKSWAN KW - ENGLISH KW - PART I: PHONETICS AND SPOKEN ENGLISH 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE SPEECH MECHANISM 3. THE DESCRIPTION OF SPEECH SOUNDS 4. THE PHONEME, THE SYLLABLE AND PROSODIC FEATURES 5. THE SOUNDS OF ENGLISH: VOWELS 6. THE SOUNDS OF ENGLISH: CONSONANTS 7. WORD STRESS 8. FEATURES OF CONNECTED SPEECH 9. FACTORS AFFECTING THE INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGIBILITY OF INDIAN ENGLISH AND SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT PART II: EXERCISES FOR PRACTICE 10. VOWELS 11. CONSONANTS 12. CONSONANT CLUSTERS 13. CONVERSATIONS ER -