My chapter on English Phonetics now appears in the (e-book) 2nd edition of the Wiley Handbook of English Linguistics, edited by Bas Aarts, April McMahon and Lars Hinrichs. You can see a preview of the chapter in Google Books.

As I write in the introduction, “My goal in this chapter is to describe those phonetic features which are typically characteristic of English varieties, while also giving a sense of the phonetic diversity to be found within this language”, and I accordingly cite a lot of recent sociophonetics work. My hope is that this chapter is useful for students or anyone else who needs an intro to or refresher on English phonetics (perhaps because they are taking a course in Sociolinguistics or Applied Linguistics that assumes such knowledge).