Understanding and Teaching the Pronunciation of English.pdf

Questions with or that o"er a choice between two or more things have intonation patterns like those shown below. The intonation ...

textbooks, but it’s becoming much more common in American English recently. I wanted to buy a new car, but I couldn’t a"ord it. ...

Taking turns In a conversation, intonation can also help show whether a speaker wants to continue talking or is !nished and read ...

Intonation “words” There are several intonation patterns that can convey meaning by themselves, even without real words. The sou ...

chlorine, we immediately notice that the taste is not quite the same. We only notice the taste of our own familiar water in cont ...

rising intonation, as if the sentence were just a list of individual words. Needless to say, this is not a model that will help ...

Internet Links Here’s a video on YouTube of twin babies “talking” to each other. Even before they can say real words, these babi ...

CHAPTER 12 Connected Speech What is connected speech? Language learners often feel that natural, spoken English is fast and hard ...

sounds, or they won’t understand the words that the speaker is saying. For the listener, it would be easiest if all the words we ...

There are several kinds of systematic changes that happen when certain sounds are linked between words. Here are the most typica ...

Consonant + consonant Two identical consonants: When a word ends in a consonant sound and the next word begins with the same sou ...

Vowel + vowel: When two vowel sounds come together, a /y/ or /w/ glide can sometimes be heard: theater pronunciation create ruin ...

smaller number of cases, the !rst sound causes the second sound to change. For example, when we add -s and -ed endings, the endi ...

thing. The only di"erence is whether or not they have standard written forms replacing the “lost” sounds with an apostrophe. 12. ...

Common words and expressions As we saw in Chapter 9, sounds are deleted in some very common expressions. For example: Going to ⇒ ...

How much connected speech do learners need? When learners listen to authentic English, they’ll hear connected speech constantly. ...

CHAPTER 13 Teaching the Musical Aspects of Pronunciation Suprasegmentals: Squishy, but fun In teaching students about suprasegme ...

meaning the speaker wants to convey. We often can’t predict the best intonation or prominence for a sentence without knowing the ...

Listening to syllables and word stress Same or different? Have students listen to pairs of words and decide if the number of syl ...

Syllable scavenger hunt: Ask students to look for and list objects whose names have a certain number of syllables or a certain s ...