The Study of Phonetics --Branches of Phonetics -- Phonetics: A Tool Subject -- Dynamic Nature of Speech -- Language, Dialects, Registers, and Idiolects -- Major Dialects of American English -- Determining Your Speech History, or Idiolect -- A Dialect Survey for Your Use -- Exercises in Applied Phonetics Workbook -- Classifying the Sounds of Speech -- Vowels and Consonants -- Voicing -- Place of Articulation -- Manner of Articulation -- Other Manners of Articulation -- Distinctive Feature Theory -- Phonetic Features That Do Not Distinguish Phonemes -- Other Ways of Classifying Speech Sounds -- Exercises in Applied Phonetics Workbook -- Some Applications of Phonetic Theory -- Relationship Between Phonetics and Phonology -- Advantages of Using Distinctive Features to Write Phonological Rules -- Reading and Writing Phonological Rules with Distinctive Features -- Clinical Phonetics: Consonantal Deviations -- Clinical Phonetics: Vowel Deviations -- The Sounds of American English: A Resource for Phoneticians -- Sounds and Symbols: The Phonetic Alphabet -- The Stop Consonants -- /p/ -- /b/ -- /t/ -- /d/ -- /k/ -- /g/ -- The Fricative Consonants -- /f/ -- /v/ -- /[theta]/ -- /s/ -- /z/ -- /h/ -- The Affricate Consonants -- The Nasal Consonants -- /m/ -- /n/ -- The Glide, Liquid, and Lateral Consonants -- /j/ -- /w/ -- /hw/ -- /r/ -- /l/ -- The Front Vowels -- /i/ -- /I/ -- /e/ -- /[varepsilon]/ -- /ae/ -- The Central Vowels -- /[Lambda]/ -- The Back Vowels -- /u/ -- /o/ -- /a/ -- The Diphthongs.