1st Edition
Shaping Learners’ Pronunciation Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English
240 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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A straightforward entry to understanding crucial components of phonological literacy, this essential text explains the theoretical and practical rationale for teaching connected speech (CS) and offers useful pedagogical applications. Brown and Crowther describe the basic phonemes (including consonants, vowels, and diphthongs) of spoken North American English and examine word stress, utterance... Read more
PART A IN THE BEGINNING
Chapter 1 Where Connected Speech Fits into English Language Learning
Chapter 2 Transcribing Speech Sounds
Chapter 3 Word Stress
Chapter 4 Utterance Stress and Timing
PART B AS A RULE
Chapter 5 Phoneme Variations
Chapter 6 Simple Transitions
Chapter 7 Dropping Sounds
Chapter 8 Inserting Sounds
Chapter 9 Changing Sounds
Chapter 10 Connected Speech Combines Multiple Processes
Biography
James Dean Brown is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA.
Dustin Crowther is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, USA.
