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This pronunciation text helps students achieve a near-native accent.

Teaches vowels, consonants, rhythm, stress, and intonation using principles of articulatory phonetics. Provides precise illustrations of lip positions of vowels and consonants, and a diagnostic speech sample. Reinforces theory with numerous practice exercises that include phrases, dialogues, reading passages, and oral presentations. Includes spelling patterns for ordinary words and academic words.

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• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 The Speech Process
• 1.2 Language Variation
• 1.3 Self-Analysis
• 1.4 Diagnostic Speech Sample
• 1.5 Analysis of Problems
• 2 The Phonetic Alphabet
• 2.1 English Spelling
• 2.2 The Phonetic Alphabet
• 3 Vowel Overview
• 3.1 Production of Vowels
• 3.2 American English Vowel Sounds
• 3.3 American English Vowel Sounds in Sentences
• 4 Vowels in Detail
• 4.1 Vowels 1-4
• 4.2 Vowels 5-8
• 4.3 Vowels 9-11
• 4.4 Vowels 13-15
• 4.5 Same Spelling, Different Pronunciation (Advanced)
• 4.6 Vowel 12 and Vowels Followed by
• 5 Review of the Phonetic Alphabet and Vowels
• 5.1 Review Exercises
• 5.2 Dialogues for Vowels
• 6 Stress
• 6.1 Stressed and Unstressed Syllables
• 6.2 Vowel Reduction
• 6.3 Dividing Words into Syllables
• 6.4 Stress Placement in Words of Two or More Syllables
• 7 Stress (Advanced)
• 7.1 Stress and Vowel Reduction in Noun-Verb Word Pairs
• 7.2 Alternation of Reduced and Full Vowels
• 7.3 Disappearing Syllables
• 8 Rhythm
• 8.1 Stress in One-Syllable Words
• 8.2 Weak Forms: Reducing Function Words
• 8.3 Rhythmic Grouping: Pausing and Linking
• 9 Rhythm (Advanced)
• 9.1 Breaking the Rules
• 9.2 Words with Variable Stress
• 10 Stress in Compound Nouns
• 10.1 Compound Nouns
• 10.2 Introduction to Intonation
• 10.3 Compound Versus Non-compound Constructions (Advanced)
• 11 Review of Stress and Rhythm
• 11.1 Reading Passages
• 11.2 Review Exercises
• 12 Consonant Overview
• 12.1 Production of Consonants
• 12.2 American' English Consonat Sounds
• 12.3 American English Consonant Sounds in Sentences
• 13 Difference Between Voiced and Voiceless Consonants
• 13.1 Aspiration of Initial Voiceless Stops /p t k/
• 13.2 Vowel Length and Final Consonants
• 13.3 Final Voiceless Consonants
• 13.4 North American English /t/ (Advanced)
• 13.5 Exercises for Voiced and Voiceless Consonants
• 14 and Endings
• 14.1 Adding
• 14.2 Adding
• 14.3 Consonant Groups
• 15 Consonants in Detail
• 15.1 /s/ and /z/
• 15.2 /¸/ and /ð/
• 15.3 /+/ and /f+/
• 15.4 /d3/ and /y/
• 15.5 /3/ and Review of /+, t+, d3/
• 15.6 Final /dz/ and /ts/ (Advanced)
• 15.7 /f, v, w/
• 15.8 /h/
• 15.9 /r/ and /l/
• 15.10 Final /m, n, K/
• 15.11 Fast Speech Rules
• 15.12 Review of Consonants: Place of Articulation
• 16 Intonation
• 16.1 Intonation and Sentence Stress
• 16.2 Neutral Pitch Patterns
• 16.3 Moving Sentence Stress
• 16.4 Changing the Pitch Pattern
• 16.5 Choice Questions and Tag Questions (Advanced)
• 16.6 Dialogues for Intonation
• For Further Reading
• Glossary
• Index