Essential speech physiology: Organs of speech, airstream mechanism Articulatory phonetics, Acoustic phonetics & allophonic alterations Phonological features and rules IPA, Phoneme, Phone, allophones English consonants (articulatory and acoustic criteria for classification and description of consonants, i.e., place of articulation, manner of articulation, and voicing) English vowels (articulatory and acoustic criteria for classification and description of vowels; semi-vowels, diphthongs) Syllable: sequential constraints, components of a syllable (coda, onset, nucleus, rhyme), breaking the syllable structure Prosodic and Suprasegmental Phonology: stress, Pitch, Intonation and Tone, length