The late Dr R K Bansal was Professor of Phonetics and Spoken English, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.

Dr J B Harrison was formerly Lecturer, School of Education, University of Leicester, U K. Also, formerly Visiting Professor of Spoken English, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.

Publisher’s Note
Preface
List of Phonetic Symbols and Signs

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

 A Select Bibliography