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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