Authors: Martin Hewings
ISBN-13: 9780521619561, ISBN-10: 0521619564
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: January 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Book Synopsis
The best-selling English Pronunciation in Use is a comprehensive reference and practice book suitable for self-study or classroom work, and is now available with a unique, new CD-ROM for additional interactive practice.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 5
About this book 6
Getting started
Accents (1): Varieties of English 8
Accents (2): English as an international language 10
Finding out about pronunciation (1): dictionaries 12
Finding out about pronunciation (2): online resources 14
Pronunciation in slow and fast speech (1) 16
Pronunciation in slow and fast speech (2) 18
Pronunciation of words and phrases
Consonant clusters
Play, grow, splash: Consonant clusters at the beginning of words 20
Jump, next, glimpsed: Consonant clusters at the end of words 22
Abstract, next Friday: Consonant clusters within and across words 24
Stress in words and phrases
[Characters not reproducible]Contro[Characters not reproducible]versial and controversial: Word stress and prominence 26
[Characters not reproducible]Comfort and [Characters not reproducible]comfortable: Suffixes and word stress (1) 28
Ac[Characters not reproducible]celerate and ac[Characters not reproducible]cele[Characters not reproducible]ration: Suffixes and word stress (2) 30
Ex[Characters not reproducible]treme and ex[Characters not reproducible]tremity: Suffixes and word stress (3) 32
Dis[Characters not reproducible]organised and [Characters not reproducible]recon[Characters notreproducible]sider: Prefixes and word stress (1) 34
[Characters not reproducible]Subway and [Characters not reproducible]super[Characters not reproducible]power: Prefixes and word stress (2) 36
[Characters not reproducible]News[Characters not reproducible]paper and [Characters not reproducible]absolute [Characters not reproducible]zero: Stress in compound nouns 38
[Characters not reproducible]Hair-[Characters not reproducible]raising and [Characters not reproducible]hard-[Characters not reproducible]working: Stress in compound adjectives and in abbreviations 40
[Characters not reproducible]Closed-circuit [Characters not reproducible]television and [Characters not reproducible]sell-by date: Stress in longer compound nouns 42
[Characters not reproducible]Dream of and [Characters not reproducible]live for: One-stress phrasal verbs 44
[Characters not reproducible]Hang a[Characters not reproducible]round and [Characters not reproducible]look [Characters not reproducible]up to: Two-stress phrasal verbs 46
Stressed and unstressed syllables
Some, the, from, etc.: Weak forms of function words 48
Well, You do it then!: Prominent function words 50
Calcu/[Characters not reproducible]/late and calcu/e/late: Vowels in unstressed syllables in content words 52
Listen, bottle, politician, etc.: Syllabic consonants 54
Foreign words
Deja vu, angst, tsunami: Foreign words in English 56
Pronunciation in conversation
Features of fluent speech
One[Characters not reproducible]evening, stop[Characters not reproducible]now, go[Characters not reproducible]away, etc.: Linking sounds 58
I'll get it, These're mine: Contracted forms 60
I'm not sure, Not sure, 'm not sure: Ellipsis and 'near ellipsis' 62
Last night, I haven't seen her: Leaving out consonant sounds (1):/t/ 64
An old car, a bottle of water: Leaving out consonant sounds (2):/d/,/h/,/l/,/v/ 66
Average, novelist, happening: Words that lose a syllable 68
Organising information in conversation
//We stuck a picture// of an elephant//: Breaking speech into units 70
//It's blue// dark blue//: Prominent words in speech units (1) 72
//I've always been terrified of spiders//: Prominent words in speech units (2) 74
//I'll believe it when I see it//: Fixed phrases and idioms in speech units 76
She's got an essay to write: Non-prominence on final 'empty' content words 78
I can't stand the stuff: Non-prominence on final vague expressions 80
Just help yourself; Throw it to me: Prominence in reflexive and personal pronouns 82
Intonation in telling, asking and answering
I'm quite busy [Characters not reproducible] at the moment [Characters not reproducible]: Falling and rising tones 84
They taste great [Characters not reproducible], these biscuits [Characters not reproducible]: Tails 86
Great film [Characters not reproducible], wasn't it [Characters not reproducible]?: Question tags 88
What I don't understand [Characters not reproducible] is how it got there [Characters not reproducible]: Cleft sentences 90
Finding out or making sure?: Questions (1) 92
Wasn't it terrible [Characters not reproducible]? Are you crazy [Characters not reproducible]?: Questions (2) 94
'I paid [Characters not reproducible]200,000 for it.' 'How much [Characters not reproducible]?': Repeat questions 96
Although I was tired [Characters not reproducible], I couldn't get to sleep [Characters not reproducible]: Comparisons and contrasts 98
'You were asleep in the class!': 'I [Characters not reproducible] Wasn't asleep [Characters not reproducible].': Contradictions 100
You couldn't carry it upstairs for me [Characters not reproducible]?: Requests and reservation 102
On the whole [Characters not reproducible], it went very well: Attitude words and phrases (1) 104
She just forgot, presumably [Characters not reproducible]?: Attitude words and phrases (2) 106
How embarrassing [Characters not reproducible]!: Exclamations 108
Intonation in managing conversation
Mhm, Right, I see: Keeping conversation going 110
On top of that...[Characters not reproducible]; Anyway...[Characters not reproducible]: Adding information and changing topic 112
Pronunciation in formal settings
Before she left school// she started her own business: Dividing prepared speech into units (1) 114
One of the paintings// he left to his sister: Dividing prepared speech into units (2) 116
Lima - as I'm sure you know [Characters not reproducible] - is the capital of Peru: Pronunciation of inserts 118
We expected profits to drop, but they [Characters not reproducible] rose: Step-ups - contrasts and new topics 120
The headteacher, Mr [Characters not reproducible] Lee, will be talking to parents: Step-downs - adding information and ending topics 122
Small, medium, and large: Tones in a series of similar items 124
'Politicians are the same all over...': Level tone in quoting and building suspense 126
Reference
The phonemic alphabet: Practice 128
Consonant clusters: Further practice 132
Word stress: Further practice 136
Glossary 140
Further reading 143
Key 144
Key to phonemic and other symbols 192
Subjects