<p><i>Pronouncing English</i> is a textbook for teaching English phonetics and phonology, offering an original &quot;stress-based&quot; approach while incorporating all the standard course topics. Drawing on current linguistic theory, it uniquely analyzes prosody first, and then discusses its effects on pronunciation -- emphasizing suprasegmental features such as meter, stress, and intonation, then the vowels and consonants themselves.</p><p>Distinguished by being the first work of its kind to be based on an exhaustive statistical analysis of all the lexical entries of an entire dictionary,<i>Pronouncing English</i> is complemented by a list of symbols and a glossary. Richard Teschner and M. Stanley Whitley present an improved description of English pronunciation and conclude each chapter with suggestions on how to do a better job of teaching it. An appendix with a brief introduction to acoustic phonetics -- the basis for the perception vs. the production of sounds -- is also included. Revolutionary in its field,<i>Pronouncing English</i> declares that virtually all aspects of English pronunciation -- from the vowel system to the articulation of syllables, words, and sentences -- are determined by the presence or absence of stress.</p><p>The accompanying CD-ROM carries audio recordings of many of the volume's exercises, more than 100 text and sound files, and data files on which the statistical observations were based.</p>