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This text focuses on elements essential for successful pronunciation ¿ stress, intonation, individual sounds (both vowels and consonants), linking, reductions, ellipses, consonant replacements, and inflectional endings. Also provides a variety of exercises to practice for the SPEAK test.
| Syllable Recognition and Reduction | |
| Syllables | |
| Stressed Syllables | |
| Recognizing Syllable Stress in English | |
| Ellipsis | |
| Unstressed Syllables with Non-Reduced Vowels An Overview of English Vowels | |
| Lax Vowels | |
| // | |
| /I/ | |
| /T/ | |
| /a/ | |
| /u/ | |
| The Tense Vowels | |
| Diphthongs /ay/, /aw/, /oy/ | |
| /iy/ | |
| /ey/ | |
| /uw/ | |
| /ow/ | |
| Troublesome Consonants | |
| /s/ and /z/ | |
| th /and | |
| /r/ and /l/ | |
| Nonreleased Final Consonants | |
| Consonant Clusters | |
| Consonant Combinations in Phrases and Sentences | |
| Linking | |
| Linking with Vowels | |
| Linking Identical Consonants | |
| Consonant Replacements | |
| The Flap | |
| The Glottal Stop | |
| Can/Cant | |
| Negative Contractions | |
| Common Reductions | |
| Reductions with /h/ | |
| going to/want to/have to/has to | |
| of | |
| and/or/for | |
| Sentence Rhythm | |
| Sentence Stress and Unstress | |
| Content and Function Words | |
| Stress Timing | |
| Information Focus and Intonation | |
| Information Focus: The Basic Pattern | |
| Common Intonation Patterns | |
| Contrasting New Information | |
| Intonation Patterns That Change the Meaning | |
| Lists | |
| Inflectional Endings | |
| Past Tense (-ed) | |
| Plural/3rd Person s | |
| -teen/-ty | |
| Reductions in Consonant Clusters | |
| sts/sks/th Deletion | |
| nt Reduction | |
| Assimilation | |
| Contractions | |
| Contractions with will | |
| Contractions with the Verb be | |
| Contractions with have, has, does, did | |
| Contractions with would and had | |
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