James Dean Brown, Dustin Crowther

Shaping Learners' Pronunciation

Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text explains the theoretical and practical rationale for teaching connected speech (CS) and offers useful pedagogical applications. The authors describe the basic phonemes (consonants, vowels, and diphthongs) of spoken North American English and examine word stress, utterance stress, and timing, as they are related to CS.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780367701505
• ISBN-10: 0367701502
• Artikelnr.: 64035534

Autorenporträt

James Dean Brown is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Hawai'i at M¿noa, USA. Dustin Crowther is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at University of Hawai'i at M¿noa, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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