American accent training: a guide to speaking and pronouncing colloquial American English [Fourth edition] 9781438065038, 1438065035

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American accent training: a guide to speaking and pronouncing colloquial American English [Fourth edition]
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Table of contents :
Introduction : read this first --
Telephone tutoring: Preliminary diagnostic analysis --
The American sound --
Pure sound --
Voice quality --
The American speech music --
Four main reasons for intonation --
Can or can't --
Intonation and attitude --
Squeezed-out syllables --
Syllable stress --
Complex intonation --
Phrasal verbs --
Word linking & phrasing --
Word groups and phrasing --
Cat? Caught? Cut? --
The miracle technique --
The American T --
The American R --
The El --
Reduced sounds --
Grammar in a nutshell --
Tee aitch --
S or Z? --
Telephone tutoring: mi-point diagnostic analysis --
Review and expansion --
More reduced sounds --
"V" as in victory --
Tense and lax vowels --
The ridge --
The verb map --
Grammar in a bigger nutshell --
Practical application --
Nasal consonants --
Throaty consonants --
Telephone tutoring: final diagnostic analysis --
Review and expansion --
Nationality guides --
Answer key --
ESL teacher's guide --
Index.

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