ABSTRACT
This chapter gives a basic introduction to the measurement and acoustic analysis of main components of pronunciation, such as measuring vowels, aspects of consonants, lexical stress placement and rhythmic patterning will be introduced. It is envisaged that such knowledge of acoustic measurement and analysis of main pronunciation features can facilitate an empirically-based comparison between different varieties of English in the context of EIL. The chapter provides a step-by-step demonstration of how to use a freely available speech analysis software such as Praat for the acoustic analysis of speech. It examines how to compare the F0 realisations for compound nouns and noun phrases between British English and Singapore English. Voice onset time (VOT) is the duration between the time point when a plosive is released after the period of closure and therefore silence and before the start of the next vowel.
