English Pronunciation in Use Advanced Book

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Contents Acknowledgements About this book

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Section A Getting started 1 2 3 4 5 6

Accents (1): Varieties of English Accents (2): English as an international language Finding out about pronunciation (1): dictionaries Finding out about pronunciation (2): online resources Pronunciation in slow and fast speech (1) Pronunciation in slow and fast speech (2)

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Section B Pronunciation of words and phrases Consonant clusters

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play, grow, splash Consonant clusters at the beginning of words jump, next, glimpsed Consonant clusters at the end of words abstract, next Friday Consonant clusters within and across words

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Stress in words and phrases

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ˌcontroˈversial and controVERsial Word stress and prominence ˈcomfort and ˈcomfortable Sufixes and word stress (1) acˈcelerate and acˌceleˈration Sufixes and word stress (2) exˈtreme and exˈtremity Sufixes and word stress (3) disˈorganised and ˌreconˈsider Preixes and word stress (1) ˈsubway and ˈsuperˌpower Preixes and word stress (2) ˈnewsˌpaper and ˌabsolute ˈzero Stress in compound nouns ˈhair-ˌraising and ˌhard-ˈworking Stress in compound adjectives and in abbreviations ˌclosed-circuit ˈtelevision and ˈsell-by date Stress in longer compound nouns ˈdream of and ˈlive for One-stress phrasal verbs ˌhang aˈround and ˌlook ˈup to Two-stress phrasal verbs

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Stressed and unstressed syllables

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some, the, from, etc. Weak forms of function words Well, YOU do it then! Prominent function words calcu/ʊ/late and calcu/ə/late Vowels in unstressed syllables in content words listen, bottle, politician, etc. Syllabic consonants

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Foreign words

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déjà vu, angst, tsunami Foreign words in English

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Section C Pronunciation in conversation Features of luent speech

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oneevening, stopnow, goaway, etc. Linking sounds I’ll get it, These’re mine Contracted forms I’m not sure, Not sure, ’m not sure Ellipsis and ‘near ellipsis’ last night, I haven’t seen her Leaving out consonant sounds (1): /t/ an old car, a bottle of water Leaving out consonant sounds (2): /d/, /h/, /l/, /v/ average, novelist, happening Words that lose a syllable

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