Indigenous Languages of the Americas and Their Structures: Sounds

The landmark guide to English pronunciation by Daniel Jones, the phonetician who defined the cardinal vowels. It describes every English speech sound with 131 illustrations and diagrams, and shows the common mistakes learners make and how to fix them.

Daniel Jones

A concise introduction to phonetics by Henry Sweet, the scholar who inspired Professor Higgins in Pygmalion. It explains how speech sounds are produced and written down, with examples from English, French, German, Latin and Greek.

Henry Sweet