A handbook on English word stress and stressed-vowel sounds is based on the idea that these segments are, in most cases, controlled by phonological context and their pronunciation can be understood through a system of rules. It serves as a reference for teachers and as a text for students. Chapters address these topics: word stress and active and ambivalent suffixes; word stress and prefixes; stressed vowels (long and short) in their context; the sounds of stressed vowels controlled by "r"; stressed vowel clusters; and unstressed vowels in their context. Appended materials include notes on some English consonants, historical principles of word stress, and pronunciation of recent loan words. (MSE)