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Clear Speech Student's Book with audio CD: Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in American English » (3rd Edition)

Authors: Judy B. Gilbert
ISBN-13: 9780521543545, ISBN-10: 0521543541
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: 3rd Edition

Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in North American English.

	Acknowledgments
	To the student
	To the teacher
	Clear listening test
	Clear speaking test
1	Rhythm: number of syllables	1
	Sounds
2	Stops and continuants	8
3	More stops and continuants: grammar	16
4	Rhythm: stops and syllable length	25
5	Sounds: Voicing	31
6	Concentrating on sibilants	37
7	Rhythm: voicing and syllable length	45
	Words
8	Stress: vowel length	54
9	Stress: vowel clarity	58
10	Word stress patterns	63
	Sentences
11	Basic Emphasis Pattern: content words	72
12	Basic Emphasis Pattern: structure words	77
	Conversation
13	Focus 1 : pitch patterns used for emphasis	86
14	Focus 2: emphasizing structure words	94
15	Intonation: pitch direction of questions	103
16	Intonation: thought groups (1)	108
17	Intonation: thought groups (2)	113
	App. A Vowels	118
	App. B Additional work on consonants	124
	App. C Student's own dictation	132