The best-selling English Pronunciation in Use is a comprehensive reference and practice book suitable for self-study or classroom work. Sixty easy-to-use units cover all aspects of pronunciation, including individual sounds, word stress, connected speech and intonation. Each unit is supported by audio material in range of accents, available on audio CD. An additional reference section offers a glossary of specialized terms, help with the pronunciation of numbers and geographical names and fun exercises on phonemic symbols and minimal pairs.
Contents Acknowledgements 5 About this book 6 Section A Getting started 1 Accents (1 ): Varieties of English 8 2 Accents (2): English as an international language 10 3 Finding out about pronunciation (1): dictionaries 12 4 Finding out about pronunciation (2): online resources 14 5 Pronunciation in slow and fast speech (1) 16 6 Pronunciation in slow and fast speech (2) 18 Section В Pronunciation of words and phrases
Consonant clusters 7 play, grow, splash Consonant clusters at the beginning of words 20 8 jump, next, glimpsed Consonant clusters at the end of words 22 9 abstract, next Friday Consonant clusters within and across words 24 Stress in words and phrases 10 ,controversial and controVERsial Word stress and prominence 26 11 'comfort and 'comfortable Suffxes and word stress (1) 28 12 ac'celerate and ac,cele'ration Suffxes and word stress (2) 30 13 ex'treme and ex'tremity Suffxes and word stress (3) 32 14 dis'organised and ,recon'sider Prefxes and word stress (1) 34 15 'subway and 'superpower Prefxes and word stress (2) 36 16 'news,paper and ,absolute 'zero Stress in compound nouns 38 17 'hair-,raising and ,hard-'working Stress in compound adjectives and in abbreviations 40 1 8 ,closed-circuit 'television and 'sell-by date Stress in longer compound nouns 42 1 9 'dream of and 'live for One-stress phrasal verbs 44 20 ,hang a'round and ,look 'up to Two-stress phrasal verbs 46 Stressed and unstressed syllables 21 some, the, from, ete. Weak forms of function words 48 22 Well, YOU do it then! Prominent function words 50 23 calcu/u/late and calcu/;/late Vowels in unstressed syllables in content words 52 24 listen, bottle, politician, etc. Syllabic consonants 54 Foreign words 25 deja vu, angst, tsunami Foreign words in English 56 Section С Pronunciation in conversation Features of fluent speech 26 one^evening, stopwnow, go^away, ete. Linking sounds 58 27 I'll get it, These're mine Contracted forms 60 28 Im not sure, Not sure, 'm not sure Ellipsis and 'near ellipsis' 62 2 9 lasi night, I haven'i seen her Leaving out consonant sounds (1): /t/ 64 30 an old car, a bottle o£ water Leaving out consonant sounds (2): /d/, /h/, /1/, /v/ 66 31 average, novelist, happening Words that lose a syllable 68 Organising information in conversation 32 II we stuck a picturell of an elephantI Breaking speech into units 70 33 II It's BLUElI DARK bluell Prominent words in speech units (1) 72 34 II I've always been terrifed of SPIders! Prominent words in speech units (2) 74 35 II I'll beLIEVE it when I SEE itI Fixed phrases and idioms in speech units 76 36 she's got an ESSay to write Non-prominence on fnal 'empty' content words 78 37 I can't STAND the stuff Non-prominence on fnal vague expressions 80 38 Just help yourSELF; Throw it to ME Prominence in refexive and 82 personal pronouns Intonation in telling. asking and answering 39 I'm quite busy В at the moment Q Falling and rising tones 84 40 They taste great В, these biscuits Ш Tails 86 41 Great flm B, wasn't it I? Question tags 88 42 What I don't understand S3 is how it got there В Cleft sentences 90 43 Finding out or making sure? Questions (1) 92 44 Wasn't it terrible I? Are you crazy I? Questions (2) 94 45 'I paid €200,000 for it.' 'How much I?' Repeat questions 96 46 Although I was tired (3, I couldn't get to sleep В Comparisons and contrasts 98 47 'You were asleep in the class!' 'I .WASn't asleep B. Contradictions 100 48 You couldn't carry it upSTAIRS for me B? Requests and reservation 102 49 On the whole БЭ, it went very well Attitude words and phrases (1) 104 50 She just forgot, presumably I? Attitude words and phrases (2) 106 51 How embarrassing 1! Exclamations 108 Intonation in managing conversation 52 Mhm, Right, I see Keeping conversation going 110 53 On top of that ... S3; Anyway ... В Adding information and 112 changing topic Section D Pronunciation in formal settings 54 Before she left schooV she started her own business Dividing prepared 114 speech into units (1) 55 One of the paintingsll he lef to his sister Dividing prepared speech 116 into units (2) 56 Lima - as I'm sure you know ШШ - is the capital of Peru Pronunciation 118 of inserts 57 We expected profts to drop, but they Щ rose Step-ups - contrasts and 120 new topics 58 The headteacher, Mr Щ Lee, will be talking to parents Step-downs - adding 122 information and ending topics 59 Small, medium, and large Tones in a series of similar items 124 60 'Politicians are the same all over .. .' Level tone in quoting and 126 building suspense Section E Reference E1 The phonemic alphabet: Practice 128 E2 Consonant clusters: Further practice 132 E3 Word stress: further practice 136 E4 Clossary 140 E5 further reading 143 Key 144 Key to phonemic and other symbols 192 English Pronunciation in Use (Advanced)
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