Why we study phonetics; How we study phonetics; The major aspects of the study of phonetics; A description of speech sound production; Acoustics; Perception; Spoken versus written language; Phonetic transcription; Articulators aspects of phonetics - Consonants; Vowels, and Diphthongs; Important; Acoustic Cues to Discriminate Speech Sounds and Speech Perception; Perception; Syllables, Stress, and Intonation; From Phonetics to Phonology; Additional Sounds Closely Related to English Phonemes; Pronunciation differences and Dialects.