Sound Advice A Basis for Listening

Name: Sound Advice A Basis for Listening
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ISBN: 9780130813619

ISBN-10: 0130813613

ISBN-13: 9780130813619

Edition: 2nd 2000

Authors: Stacy A. Hagen

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Book details

List price: $51.60
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall, E S L Department
Publication date: 8/26/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 183
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




Understanding the Basics



Reductions


Syllable Stress


Ellipsis


Function words


More Ellipsis: Dropping Initial Wordsgoing to, want to, have to


Reductions for and/or



Introduction to Linking


Linking with Vowels


Linking Identical Consonants



Special Sound Changes


The Flap-ty/-teen-nt Reduction


The Glottal Stop


Can/Can'tofLinking of with Vowels



Silent h


Function Words Beginning with h


Questions Beginning with have/has


Pronoun Summary



Building on the Basics



Advanced Linking


Linking Similar Consonants


Linking with ed Endings


Assimilation with y



Focus on Function Words


Listening for Unstressed Wordsa/anour/are/or



Contractions


Negative Contractions


Common Contractions with Personal Pronouns


Contractions with "wh" Words


Other Contractions with will


The "s" contraction


Contractions with it/that



Endings and Beginnings-s/-es Endings-en Ending


Adjective Endings


Prefixes


Comparative and Superlative Endings



Advanced Listening Concepts



Grammar Challenges I


Understanding Tag Questions


Infinitives (to + verb) and Gerunds (verb + -ing)


Negative Comparisons


Talking To vs. Talking About



Grammar Challenges II


Past Tense Modal Reductions


Expressing Conditions with Should and Had



Special Aspects of Intonation and Stress


Statements as Questions


Tag Endings


Contrastive Stress


Indicating Surprise with Yes/No Questions


Using Rhetorical Questions to Show Sarcasm



TOEFL Practice



TOEFL Practice 1



TOEFL Practice II



TOEFL Practice III


Appendix


Tapescript


Answer Key