Introduction Rachael-Anne Knight and Jane Setter; Part I. Segmental Production: 1. Physiological Foundations Alan Wrench and Janet Mackenzie Beck; 2. Vowels Jarek Weckwerth; 3.Consonants Michael Proctor; 4.Coarticulation Khalil Iskarous and Christine Mooshammer; 5. Processes in Connected Speech Natasha Warner; Part II. Prosodic Production: 6. Stress and Rhythm Marina Noelia Cantarutti and Beatrice Szczepek Reed; 7. Lexical Tone Albert Lee, Peggy Mok; 8. Intonation Paul Warren and Sasha Calhoun; 9.Voice Quality John H. Esling and Scott R. Moisik; Part III. Measuring Speech: 10. Measuring Vowels Byunggon Yang; 11. Measuring Consonants Mauricio A. Figueroa Candia and Young Shin Kim; 12. Measuring Speech Rhythm Amalia Arvaniti; 13. Fundamental Frequency and Pitch Daniel Hirst and Céline De Looze; 14.Observing and Measuring Speech Articulation Susan Lin; 15. Beyond Functional Speech Synthesis Rupal Patel, Geoffrey S. Meltzner and Markus Toman; Part IV. Audition and Perception: 16. Neurological Foundations of Phonetic Sciences Francis C. K. Wong, Mark Antoniou and Patrick C. M. Wong; 17. Psycholinguistic Aspects Meghan Sumner and Seung Kyung Kim; 18. Phonetics and Eye-Tracking Eva Reinisch and Holger Mitterer; 19. Automatic Speech Recognition by Machines Sabato Marco Siniscalchi and Chin-Hui Lee; Part V. Applications of Phonetics: 20. Pedagogical Approaches Rachael-Anne Knight, Jane Setter and Nicole Whitworth; 21. Pronunciation Teaching Jane Setter and Takehiko Makino; 22. Sociophonetics Katie Drager and Thomas Kettig; 23. Developmental Phonetics of Speech Production Yvan Rose, Tara McAllister and Sharon Inkelas; 24. Clinical Phonetics Matthew Moreland; 25. Forensic Phonetics Toby Hudson, Kirsty McDougall, Vincent Hughes; 26. The Phonetics of Talk in Interaction Richard Ogden; 27. The Phonetics/Phonology Interface Robert Kennedy.