Main features of English phonetics

     1.  1. Segmental phonemes:

• Vowels: monophthongs and diphthongs
• Consonants: voiced and unvoiced

1. 2. Suprasegmental phonemes:

• Stress: word stress and sentence stress
• How sounds change in connected speech: rhythm, liaison, elision, and assimilation
• Intonation: tonality, tonicity, and tone

Linking: consonant to vowel, vowel to consonant 

assimilation: 

Intonation: tonality, tonicity and tone(fall, rise and rise-fall)

fall: definiteness

rise: incompleteness

rise-fall: implications           

stressed syllables have a pitch chnage. 

What does it mean? For example?

汉英对比 linking rthym assimilation elisions intonation