Clear English Pronunciation : A Practical Guide (Hardcover)

Preface Acknowledgements Your pronunciation before the course PART A ? SECOND-LANGUAGE PRONUNCIATION 2. Improving pronunciation 3. Using the speech tract 4. Using other pronunciation tools PART B ? COMBINING SOUNDS 5. Intonation 6. Vowel reduction 7. Word stress 8. Stressful words 9. Pronunciation variation 10. Sentence stress 11. Silences 12. Fortis and lenis endings 13. Contraction and assimilation PART C ? DIFFICULT CONSONANTS 14. Pronouncing pea, tea, and key [p, t, k] 15. Pronouncing teeth and teethe [θ, ð] 16. Pronouncing veer, beer, and Wear [v, b, w] 17. Pronouncing see and she [s, ?] 18. Pronouncing veal and zeal [v, z] 19. Choosing rhotacisation 20. Pronouncing right and light [?, l] 21. Unpronounced consonants 22. Consonant tests PART D ? DIFFICULT VOWELS 23. Pronouncing dark and Dirk [?ː, ?ː] 24. Pronouncing Dirk and dork [?ː, ?ː] 25. Pronouncing dork and Doke [?:, o?] 26. Pronouncing Doke and dock [o?, ?] 27. Pronouncing dock and duck [?, ?] 28. Pronouncing look and Luke [?, uː] 29. Pronouncing lick and leek [?, iː] 30. Pronouncing marry and merry [æ, ?] 31. Pronouncing merry and Mary [?, ?ː] 32. Avoiding vowel rhotacisation 33. Avoiding vowel nasalisation 34. Vowel tests Your pronunciation after the course References Index