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Accurate English : a complete course in pronunciation / Rebecca M. Dauer.
LIBRA PE1137 .D36 1993
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dauer, Rebecca M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Pronunciation.
- English language.
- English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
- Genre:
- Textbooks.
- Textbooks -- for foreign speakers.
- Physical Description:
- x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Regents/Prentice Hall, ©1993.
- Summary:
- Is a textbook and reference guide to the pronunciation of English in North America. It is designed primarily for adults who are non-native speakers of English, and English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction
- Speech Process
- Language Variation
- Self-Analysis
- Diagnostic Speech Sample
- Analysis of Problems
- Phonetic Alphabet
- English Spelling
- Vowel Overview
- Production of Vowels
- American English Vowel Sounds
- American English Vowel Sounds in Sentences
- Vowels in Detail
- Vowels 1
- 4
- Vowels 5
- 8
- Vowels 9
- 11
- Vowels 13
- 15
- Same Spelling, Different Pronunciation (Advanced)
- Vowel 12
- Review of the Phonetic Alphabet and Vowels
- Review Exercises
- Dialogues for Vowels
- Stress
- Stressed and Unstressed Syllables
- Vowel Reduction
- Dividing Words into Syllables
- Stress Placement in Words of Two or More Syllables
- Stress (Advanced)
- Stress and Vowel Reduction in Noun
- Verb Word Pairs
- Alternation of Reduced and Full Vowels
- Disappearing Syllables
- Rhythm
- /3/ and Review of /, t, d3/
- Final /dz/ and /ts/ (Advanced)
- /f, v, w/
- /h/
- /r/ and /l/
- Final /m, n, n/
- Fast Speech Rules
- Review of Consonants: Place of Articulation
- Intonation
- Intonation and Sentence Stress
- Neutral Pitch Patterns
- Moving Sentence Stress
- Changing the Pitch Pattern
- Choice Questions and Tag Questions (Advanced)
- Dialogues for Intonation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 242) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dauer, Rebecca M. Accurate English.
- ISBN:
- 0130072532
- 9780130072535
- OCLC:
- 26720195
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