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Linda Lane American Language Program
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p. cm. ISBN 0-13—231493—2 (v. 1) — ISBN 0-13—231494—0 (v.2) —— ISBN 0-13—231500-9 (V. 3) 1.
Ianguage—Pronunciation—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. speakers. I. Title.
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English language—Textbooks for foreign
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ISBN 10: 0-13-231500-9 ISBN 13: 978—0-13-231500-5 Printed in the United States of America
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CONTENTS Introduction VOWELS
Unit
Vowel Overview
Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit
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PART I
9 10
PART II
/iy/ sleep and /I/ slip /ey/ wa_it, /2/ wet, and /1/ wit;AlternatingVowels: /iy/ ~ /8/
12
/ae/ man and /8/ men; AlternatingVowels: /ey/ ~ lae/
17
/(1/ lock and /a/ luck; Reduction of Unstressed Vowels
21
Review: /8/ head, lae/ had, /a/ hut, and /a/ hot
25
Vowels Followed by /r/; The Complex Sound in wgld
31
IOW/ bat. /o/ bo_usht. and /0/ pet; Alternating vowels: /ow/ ~ /c1/; Dialects
37
/uw/ cool, /u/ could, and /yuw/ cute; AlternatingVowels: /uw/ or /yuw/ ~ /a/; The Sequence /wu/ woman
42
/ay/ wide, /aw/ hflse, and /oy/ boy; JoiningVowels Together; AlternatingVowels: lay/ ~ /1/
48
CONSONANTS
55 so 65 69 75 so 84 as 93 98
Unit 11
Consonant Overview
Unit 12
Beginning and Final Consonants; Joining Final Consonants
Unit 13
-ed Endings; Flapped /t/ and /d/
Unit 14
T_H sounds: think and mese
Unit 15
/p/ Back, /b/ hack, /f/ fan, /v/ van, and /w/ west
Unit 16
/s/ sign, /z/ zero, lj/ flop, and /3/ televis_ion
Unit 17
/t.\'/ QECK and /d3/ jug
Unit 18
-s Endings
Unit 19
/y/ vet and /d3/ jet; Joining Vowels with /y/; Clusters with /y/: reglar
Unit 20
/r/ gate; Consonant Clusters with /r/: gowth
Unit 21
Beginning /1/: light; Consonant Clusters with /1/: Que; Contrasts: /l/ and /r/, /1/ and /n/
102
Unit
22
Final /l/: feel; Contractions of will
107
Unit
23
lm/ some, /n/ sun, and /I_]/ Sig; Syllabic Nasals: suddg; Glottalized t and Syllabic Nasals: com
112
Unit
24
/h/ heavy; Reductions of H-words
118
Unit
25
Beginning Consonant Clusters
122
Unit
26
Final Consonant Clusters; Joining Final Consonants
127
PART III
SYLLABLES AND STRESS WITHIN WORDS
Unit 27
Syllables and Stress in Words: Overview
132
Unit 28
Primary and Secondary Stress; Unstressed Syllables; Movable Stress
138
Unit 29
Predicting Stress; Parts of Speech and Suffixes
1 43
Unit 30
Compound Nouns; Stress in Numbers
150
Unit 31
Words Used as Nouns or Verbs; Words with Prepositional Prefixes
156
P A R T IV
RHYTH M
Unit 32
Rhythm Overview
162
Unit 33
Stressed and Unstressed Words
167
Unit 34
Highlighting
172
Unit 35
Thought Groups
177
Unit 36
Rhythm Patterns and Personal Pronouns
183
Unit 37
Rhythm Patterns: Articles
188
Unit 38
Rhythm Patterns: Prepositional Phrases; Hafta, Gonna, Wanna
193
Unit 39
Rhythm Patterns: Phrasal Verbs
199
Unit 40
Rhythm Patterns: as, than, if
203
Unit 41
Rhythm Patterns: Conjunction that; Intonation and Clauses
208
Unit 42
Contractions and Reductions of Verbs; Can and Can’t
212
Unit 43
Reduction of Modal Perfects; Reduction of “H-words”
218
PART V Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit
44 45 46 47 48 49
INTONATION Intonation Overview
224
Final Intonation Patterns
229
Listing Intonation; Rising Intonation on Question Words
233
Checking Understanding; Low-Rising Intonation with Yes/No Questions
238
Contrastive Stress; Non-Final Intonation
243
Parentheticals and Appositives
248
Appendix 1: For Team A Players/Student A
253
Appendix 2: For Team B Players/Student B
259 _
Appendix 3: Recording and Sending a Sound File
264
Student Audio CD-ROM Tracking Guide
iv
Contents
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