> Introductory facts
>The Orthographic Inconsistency
> The IPA and the Phonemic Symbols of Speech Sounds
> Accent and Dialect
> Definition of Phonetics
> Branches of Phonetics
> Articulatory phonetics
> Acoustic phonetics
> Auditory phonetics
> Difference between Phonetics and Phonology
3. The Production of Speech Sounds and The Speech Organs
> The Production of Speech Sounds
> The Speech Sounds
> Air-stream Mechanism
>The Speech Organs
> Vocal Tract Anatomy
> Passive Vs. Active Articulators
> Common Vs. Scientific Terms of Articulators
4. Speech Mechanism and Oral/Nasal Sounds
> Speech Mechanism
> Initiation or Respiration
> Phonation Process
> The Oro-nasal Mechanism
> Articulation/Articulatory Process
> Oro-nasal Process
5. English Consonants, Voicing, Place and Manner of Articulation
> Voicing
> Bilabial sounds
> Labiodental sounds
> Dental sounds
> Alveolar sounds
> Palatoalveolar
> Palatal sounds
> Velar sounds
> Glottal sound
> Plosives (or stops)
> Fricatives
> Affricates
> Nasals
> Laterals
> Approximants
6. English Vowels and Quadrilateral Diagram
> Tongue Position
> Height
> Backness
> The Shape of the Lips
> Rounded vowels
> Unrounded vowels
> Tenseness and Length
> Centring Diphthongs
> Closing to /ɪ/ diphthongs
> Closing to /ʊ/ diphthongs