Historical overview of phonetics / Barry Heselwood, Zeki Majeed Hassan and Mark J. Jones -- Research methods in speech perception / Rachael-Anne Knight and Sarah Hawkins -- Research methods in speech production / Marija Tabain -- Research methods in phonetic fieldwork / Andrew Butcher -- Research methods in speech acoustics / Dominic Watt -- Speech perception development / Valerie Hazan -- Voice and phonation / John Esling -- Prosody / Lluisa Astruc -- Phonetic universals and phonetic variation / Mark J. Jones -- Spontaneous speech / Adrian P. Simpson -- Clinical phonetics / Tom Starr-Marshall, Susanna Martin and Rachael-Anne Knight -- Forensic speech science / Peter French and Louisa Stevens -- Phonetic pedagogy / Patricia Ashby and Michael Ashby -- An introduction to phonetic technolgy / Mark Huckvale -- New directions in speech perception / Rachel Smith -- New directions in speech production / Jonathan Harrington, Phil Hoole and Marianne Pouplier