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| Introduction | |
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| The Speech Process | |
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| Language Variation | |
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| Self-Analysis | |
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| Diagnostic Speech Sample | |
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| Analysis of Problems | |
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| The Phonetic Alphabet | |
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| English Spelling | |
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| The Phonetic Alphabet | |
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| Vowel Overview | |
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| Production of Vowels | |
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| American English Vowel Sounds | |
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| American English Vowel Sounds in Sentences | |
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| Vowels in Detail | |
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| Vowels 1-4 | |
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| Vowels 5-8 | |
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| Vowels 9-11 | |
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| Vowels 13-15 | |
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| Same Spelling, Different Pronunciation (Advanced) | |
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| Vowel 12 and Vowels Followed by <r> | |
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| Review of the Phonetic Alphabet and Vowels | |
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| Review Exercises | |
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| Dialogues for Vowels | |
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| Stress | |
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| Stressed and Unstressed Syllables | |
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| Vowel Reduction | |
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| Dividing Words into Syllables | |
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| Stress Placement in Words of Two or More Syllables | |
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| Stress (Advanced) | |
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| Stress and Vowel Reduction in Noun-Verb Word Pairs | |
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| Alternation of Reduced and Full Vowels | |
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| Disappearing Syllables | |
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| Rhythm | |
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| Stress in One-Syllable Words | |
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| Weak Forms: Reducing Function Words | |
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| Rhythmic Grouping: Pausing and Linking | |
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| Rhythm (Advanced) | |
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| Breaking the Rules | |
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| Words with Variable Stress | |
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| Stress in Compound Nouns | |
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| Compound Nouns | |
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| Introduction to Intonation | |
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| Compound Versus Non-compound Constructions (Advanced) | |
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| Review of Stress and Rhythm | |
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| Reading Passages | |
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| Review Exercises | |
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| Consonant Overview | |
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| Production of Consonants | |
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| American' English Consonat Sounds | |
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| American English Consonant Sounds in Sentences | |
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| Difference Between Voiced and Voiceless Consonants | |
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| Aspiration of Initial Voiceless Stops /p t k/ | |
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| Vowel Length and Final Consonants | |
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| Final Voiceless Consonants | |
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| North American English /t/ (Advanced) | |
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| Exercises for Voiced and Voiceless Consonants | |
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| <ed> and <s> Endings | |
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| Adding <ed> | |
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| Adding <s> | |
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| Consonant Groups | |
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| Consonants in Detail | |
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| /s/ and /z/ | |
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| /¸/ and /ð/ | |
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| /+/ and /f+/ | |
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| /d3/ and /y/ | |
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| /3/ and Review of /+, t+, d3/ | |
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| Final /dz/ and /ts/ (Advanced) | |
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| /f, v, w/ | |
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| /h/ | |
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| /r/ and /l/ | |
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| Final /m, n, K/ | |
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| Fast Speech Rules | |
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| Review of Consonants: Place of Articulation | |
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| Intonation | |
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| Intonation and Sentence Stress | |
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| Neutral Pitch Patterns | |
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| Moving Sentence Stress | |
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| Changing the Pitch Pattern | |
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| Choice Questions and Tag Questions (Advanced) | |
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| Dialogues for Intonation | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |