| 中文摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| ABBREVIATIONS | 第5-8页 |
| CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION | 第8-12页 |
| 1．1 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PHONETIC STUDY | 第8-10页 |
| 1．2 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PRONUNCIATION STUDY OF BRITISH RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION VOWELS BY SHANGHAI DIALECT SPEAKING MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS | 第10页 |
| 1．3 RESEARCH METHODS AND FOCUS | 第10-12页 |
| CHAPTER TWO SPEECH SOUNDS | 第12-25页 |
| 2．1 SPEECH SOUNDS-SOUND SYSTEM OF A LANGUAGE | 第12-17页 |
| 2．1．1 Basis of speech sounds | 第12-16页 |
| 2．1．2 The production of speech | 第16-17页 |
| 2．2 PHONE, PHONEME AND ALLOPHONE | 第17-19页 |
| 2．2．1 Relationship between phone, phoneme and allophone | 第17页 |
| 2．2．2 Phone | 第17页 |
| 2．2．3 Phoneme | 第17-18页 |
| 2．2．4 Allophone | 第18-19页 |
| 2．3 SYLLABLE | 第19-21页 |
| 2．4 TRANSCRIPTION | 第21-25页 |
| 2．4．1 Phonemic transcription | 第21页 |
| 2．4．2 Phonetic transcription | 第21-22页 |
| 2．4．3 The International Phonetic Alphabet | 第22-23页 |
| 2．4．4 Comparative chart of RP vowels symbols | 第23-24页 |
| 2．4．5 Transcriptions used in this paper | 第24-25页 |
| CHAPTER THREE VOWELS | 第25-52页 |
| 3．1 VOWELS AND CONSONANTS | 第25-27页 |
| 3．1．1 Definition of vowel | 第25-26页 |
| 3．1．2 Distinction of vowels and consonants | 第26-27页 |
| 3．2 DESCRIPTION OF VOWELS | 第27-28页 |
| 3．3 VOWELS IN THE IPA | 第28-31页 |
| 3．3．1 Cardinal vowels | 第28-31页 |
| 3．3．2 IPA vowels | 第31页 |
| 3．4 BRITISH RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION VOWELS | 第31-37页 |
| 3．4．1 British RP | 第31-33页 |
| 3．4．2 RP vowels | 第33-37页 |
| 3．5 PUTONGHUA VOWELS | 第37-42页 |
| 3．5．1 Putonghua | 第37-40页 |
| 3．5．2 Putonghua vowels | 第40-42页 |
| 3．6 COMPARISONS OF BRITISH RP VOWELS AND CHINESE PUTONGHUA VOWELS | 第42-47页 |
| 3．6．1 Comparison of monophthongs | 第42-44页 |
| 3．6．2 Comparison of diphthongs | 第44-47页 |
| 3．7 SHANGHAI DIALECT VOWELS | 第47-51页 |
| 3．7．1 Characteristics of Shanghai dialect vowels | 第47页 |
| 3．7．2 Description of Shanghai dialect vowels | 第47-51页 |
| 3．8 COMPARISON OF SHANGHAI DIALECT VOWLS AND PUTONGHUA VOWELS | 第51-52页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR STATISTICS AND ANALYSIS OF BRITISH RP VOWELS PRONUNCIATION BY SHANGHAI DIALECT SPEAKING MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS | 第52-86页 |
| 4．1 INTRODUCTION OF THE EXPERIMENT | 第52-53页 |
| 4．2 COMPARISON OF RP VOWELS, PUTONGHUA VOWELS AND SHANGHAI DIALECT VOWELS | 第53-55页 |
| 4．3 ANALYSIS OF STATISTICS | 第55-86页 |
| 4．3．1 Analysis of vowel/i:/ as in eat, sea, succed, tree | 第55-57页 |
| 4．3．2 Analysis of vowel/（?）/ as in hill, desire, fish, family | 第57-60页 |
| 4．3．3 Analysis of vowel/e/ as in went, seven, egg, next, member | 第60-61页 |
| 4．3．4 Analysis of vowel/（?）/ as in family, mad, match, Jack, chat | 第61-63页 |
| 4．3．5 Analysis of vowel/（?）/ as in summer, cup, come, brother, young | 第63-65页 |
| 4．3．6 Analysis of vowel/（?）/ as in graden, rather, after, hard | 第65-67页 |
| 4．3．7 Analysis of vowel/（?）/ as in offer, watch, wash, top | 第67-68页 |
| 4．3．8 Analysis of vowel [（?）] as in all, talk, daughter, water, horse | 第68-70页 |
| 4．3．9 Analysis of vowel /（?）/ as in butcher, cooking, look | 第70-72页 |
| 4．3．10 Analysis of vowel/（?）/as in blue, June, noon | 第72-74页 |
| 4．3．11 Analysis of vowel/（?）/as in girl, fur, search, birds, first | 第74-76页 |
| 4．3．12 /（?）/ | 第76页 |
| 4．3．13 Analysis of vowel /（?）/as in make, station, date, place | 第76-77页 |
| 4．3．14 Analysis of vowel /（?）/as in like, buy, time, climb | 第77-78页 |
| 4．3．15 Analysis of vowel /（?）/as in joy, noisy, boys, join | 第78-79页 |
| 4．3．16 Analysis of vowel /（?）/as in near, clear, dear | 第79-81页 |
| 4．3．17 Analysis of vowel /（?）/as in square, share, dare, mare, scarcely | 第81-82页 |
| 4．3．18 Analysis of vowel /（?）/as in poor, surely, tourist, rural | 第82-83页 |
| 4．3．19 Analysis of vowel /（?）/as in comb, going, show, though | 第83-84页 |
| 4．3．20 Analysis of vowel /（?）/ as in south, cow, how | 第84-86页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第86-89页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 第89-90页 |
| REFERENCES | 第90-92页 |
| APPENDIX | 第92-103页 |
