This much improved revised edition of the book takes into account the needs of
the student in the context of the present curricula followed in various
universities and English language teaching institutesThis edition therefore
devotes a new chapter to Assimilation, a section to Tones in relation to
Attitudes, and highlights certain important aspects of pronunciation, such as
rules of word accentuation Starting with general phonetics, the book goes on to
give a brief functional account of general phonology and then a selective and
yet fairly exhaustive description of the phonetics and phonology of English It
also provides a number of conversational passages in phonetic script as well