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Author : Grace Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book General American Speech Sounds written by Grace Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Prentice Hall
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780130072610
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (726 download)
Download or read book Accurate English written by Prentice Hall and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1993-04-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual accompanies the main text which focuses on the pronunciation of English in North America as it is spoken by educated native speakers. It teaches vowels, consonants, rhythm, stress and intonation using the principles of articulatory phonetics. It includes spelling patterns.
Author : Ann Cook
Publisher : Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780764173691
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (736 download)
Download or read book American Accent Training written by Ann Cook and published by Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directed to speakers of English as a second language, a multi-media guide to pronouncing American English uses a "pure-sound" approach to speaking to help imitate the fluid ways of American speech.
Author : Lisa Mojsin
Publisher : Barrons Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 1438008104
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Mastering the American Accent with Online Audio written by Lisa Mojsin and published by Barrons Educational Services. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering the American Accent is an easy-to-follow approach for reducing the accent of non-native speakers of English. Well-sequenced lessons in the book correspond over eight hours of audio files covering the entire text. The audio program provides clear models (both male and female) to help coach a standard American accent. The program is designed to help users speak Standard American English with clarity, confidence, and accuracy. The many exercises in the book concentrate on topics such as vowel sounds, problematic consonants such as V, W, TH, the American R and T and others. Correct lip and tongue positions for all sounds are discussed in detail. Beyond the production of sounds, the program provides detailed instruction in prosodic elements such as syllable stress, emphasis, intonation, linking words for smoother speech flow, common word contractions, and much more. Additional topics that often confuse ESL students are also discussed and explained. They include distinguishing between casual and formal speech, homophones (e.g., they're and there), recognizing words with silent letters (e.g., comb, receipt), and avoiding embarrassing pronunciation mistakes, such as mixing up "pull" and "pool." Students are familiarized with many irregular English spelling rules and exceptions, and are shown how such irregularities can contribute to pronunciation errors. A native language guide references problematic accent issues for 13 different language backgrounds. Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
Author : Robert Macneil
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
ISBN 13 : 0307423573
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Do You Speak American? written by Robert Macneil and published by Nan A. Talese. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations? These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran—the authors (with Robert McCrum) of the language classic The Story of English—across the country in search of the answers. Do You Speak American? is the tale of their discoveries, which provocatively show how the standard for American English—if a standard exists—is changing quickly and dramatically. On a journey that takes them from the Northeast, through Appalachia and the Deep South, and west to California, the authors observe everyday verbal interactions and in a host of interviews with native speakers glean the linguistic quirks and traditions characteristic of each area. While examining the histories and controversies surrounding both written and spoken American English, they address anxieties and assumptions that, when explored, are highly emotional, such as the growing influence of Spanish as a threat to American English and the special treatment of African-American vernacular English. And, challenging the purists who think grammatical standards are in serious deterioration and that media saturation of our culture is homogenizing our speech, they surprise us with unpredictable responses. With insight and wit, MacNeil and Cran bring us a compelling book that is at once a celebration and a potent study of our singular language. Each wave of immigration has brought new words to enrich the American language. Do you recognize the origin of 1. blunderbuss, sleigh, stoop, coleslaw, boss, waffle? Or 2. dumb, ouch, shyster, check, kaput, scram, bummer? Or 3. phooey, pastrami, glitch, kibbitz, schnozzle? Or 4. broccoli, espresso, pizza, pasta, macaroni, radio? Or 5. smithereens, lollapalooza, speakeasy, hooligan? Or 6. vamoose, chaps, stampede, mustang, ranch, corral? 1. Dutch 2. German 3. Yiddish 4. Italian 5. Irish 6. Spanish
Author : Henry Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317877764
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Sounds of Language written by Henry Rogers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonetics is the scientific study of sounds used in language- how the sounds are produced, how they are transferred from the speaker to the hearer and how they are heard and perceived. The Sounds of Language provides an accessible, general introduction to phonetics with a special emphasis on English. Focusing on the phonetics of English, the first section allows students to get an overall view of the subject. Two standard accents of English are presented- RP (Received Pronunciation), the standard accent of England, and GA (General American), the standard accent throughout much of North America. The discussion is arranged so that students can read only the RP or GA portions, if desired. Sixteen additional accents of English spoken around the world are also covered to provide students with wider international coverage. The author then moves on to introduce acoustics phonetics in an accessible manner for those without a science background. The last section of the book provides a detailed discussion of all aspects of speech with extensive examples from languages around the world. Containing student-friendly features such as extensive exercises for practising the sounds covered in each chapter; a glossary of technical terms; instructions on how to write phonetic symbols; the latest International Phonetic Alphabet chart and a detailed list of English consonantal variants, The Sounds of Language provides an excellent introduction to phonetics to students of linguistics and speech pathology and students of English as a second language.
Author : José Ignacio Hualde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521545389
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (453 download)
Download or read book The Sounds of Spanish with Audio CD written by José Ignacio Hualde and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD contains ... "[all] the sounds described in this book."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Patricia Ashby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134294174
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Speech Sounds written by Patricia Ashby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speech Sounds: * helps develop the fundamental skills of the phonetician * investigates the various aspects involved in the production of speech sounds * uses data-based material to reinforce each new concept * includes examples from a wide range of languages * provides dozens of exercises with solutions and cross-references * can complement existing course or textbook material. The second edition of Speech Sounds has been revised and updated throughout and includes new examples and exercises, a new appendix giving information on career prospects; and a fully updated further reading section.
Author : Joseph P. Olive
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387979847
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Acoustics of American English Speech written by Joseph P. Olive and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993-05-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the most contemporary and comprehensive description of the acoustics of the sounds used in American English. Intended to serve as an introductory text for students and professionals interested in acoustic phonetics, linguistics, physics, electrical engineering, and computer science, the authors bring to the subject the points of view of both linguistics and physics. The book uses numerous examples of acoustic spectrograms to show the continuities and variability of natural speech. The book begins by introducing the basic concepts of phonetics, phonology, and linguistics to readers whose background is in physics or engineering and introducing the physics of sound generation and analysis for speech scientists and linguists. The authors then use the tools developed in the first part to examine the characteristics of individual phonemes as well as the changes introduced when individual sounds are combined in speech. Modern applications of speech acoustics, especially speech synthesis and recognition, are also discussed.
Author : Ian R. A. MacKay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108694330
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Phonetics and Speech Science written by Ian R. A. MacKay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonetics is a fundamental building block not just in linguistics but also in fields such as communication disorders. However, introductions to phonetics can often assume a background in linguistics, whilst at the same time overlooking the clinical and scientific aspects of the field. This textbook fills this gap by providing a comprehensive yet accessible overview of phonetics that delves into the fundamental science underlying the production of speech. Written with beginners in mind, it focuses on the anatomy and physiology of speech, while at the same time explaining the very basics of phonetics, such as the phonemes of English, the International Phonetic Alphabet, and phonetic transcription systems. It presents the sounds of speech as elements of linguistic structure and as the result of complex biological mechanics. It explains complicated terminology in a clear, easy-to-understand way, and provides examples from a range of languages, from disorders of speech, and from language learning.
Author : Paul Carley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429960255
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book American English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice written by Paul Carley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice provides an accessible introduction to basic articulatory phonetics for students of American English. Built around an extensive collection of practice materials, this book teaches the pronunciation of modern standard American English to intermediate and advanced learners worldwide. This book: • provides an up-to-date description of the pronunciation of modern American English; • demonstrates the use of each English phoneme with a selection of high-frequency words, both alone and in context in sentences, idiomatic phrases and dialogues; • provides examples and practice material on commonly confused sounds, including illustrative pronunciation diagrams; • is supported by a companion website featuring complete audio recordings of practice material to check your pronunciation against; • can be used not only for studying pronunciation in the classroom but also for independent practice. American English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice is essential reading for any student studying this topic.
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262530972
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Sound Pattern of English written by Noam Chomsky and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since this classic work in phonology was published in 1968, there has been no other book that gives as broad a view of the subject, combining generally applicable theoretical contributions with analysis of the details of a single language. The theoretical issues raised in The Sound Pattern of English continue to be critical to current phonology, and in many instances the solutions proposed by Chomsky and Halle have yet to be improved upon.Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle are Institute Professors of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT.
Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465558756
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book The Eyes Have It written by Philip K. Dick and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ratree Wayland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108882366
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Second Language Speech Learning written by Ratree Wayland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, showcasing new empirical studies alongside critical reviews of existing influential speech learning models. It presents a revised version of Flege's Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) for the first time, an update on a cornerstone of second language research. Chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: theoretical progress, segmental acquisition, acquiring suprasegmental features, accentedness and acoustic features, and cognitive and psychological variables. Every chapter provides new empirical evidence, offering new insights as well as challenges on aspects of the second language speech acquisition process. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book summarises the state of current research in second language phonology, and aims to shape and inspire future research in the field. It is an essential resource for academic researchers and students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics and phonetics and phonology.
Author : Edith Skinner
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557837240
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Speak with Distinction written by Edith Skinner and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Acting Series). The classic Skinner method to speech for the stage! This 75-minute audio CD and booklet is a companion to the paperback Speak with Distinction (ISBN 1557830479). Revised with new material added by Timothy Monich and Lilene Mansell.
Author : Andrea Caban
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000376575
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training written by Andrea Caban and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training is a beginner’s guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork®, a method that focuses on universal and inclusive speech training for actors from all language, racial, cultural, and gender backgrounds and identities. This book provides a progression of playful, practical exercises designed to build a truly universal set of speech skills that any actor can use, such as the ability to identify, discern, and execute every sound found in every language on the planet. By observing different types of flow through the vocal tract, vocal tract anatomy, articulator actions, and how these components can be combined, readers will understand and recreate the process by which language is learned. They will then be introduced to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and will practice using the IPA for narrow transcription of speech sounds. The book also offers both an intellectual and physical understanding of oral posture and how it contributes to vocal characterization and accent work. This approach to speech training is descriptive, giving students a wide and diverse set of speech sounds and skills to utilize for any character in any project, and it establishes a foundation for future accent study and acquisition. Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training is an excellent resource for teachers and students of speech and actor training, as well as aspiring actors looking to diversify their speech skills.
Author : Judy B. Gilbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521543545
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Clear Speech Student's Book with Audio CD written by Judy B. Gilbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practice exercises to be used in conjunction with the accompanying audio cd.
