American Accent Training.pdf

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A guide to speaking and pronouncing colloquial

American English

Second Edition Ann Cook

Illustrated by Holly Forsyth Audio by Busy Signal Studios

BARRON'S

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This book is dedicated to Nate Cook.

Also, my special thanks for their extensive contributions to my editor, Dimitry

Popow, Carolyn Jaeckin, Dr. Maria Bruno, Karina Lombard, Dr. Hyouk-Keun

Kim, Ph.D., Karl Althaus, Adrian Wong, Sergey Korshunov, and Jerry Danielson

at Busy Signal Studios.

Portions of this book were previously published by Matrix Press.

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International Standard Book No. 0-7641-1429-8 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 99-75495

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 987654321

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Table of Contents

Read This First CD 1 Track 1

What Is Accent?

Can I Learn a New Accent?

Accent versus Pronunciation

"Which Accent Is Correct?"

"Why Is My Accent So Bad?"

Less Than It Appears ... More Than It Appears

Language Is Fluent and Fluid

A Few Words On Pronunciation CD 1 Track 2

Tense Vowels? Lax Vowels?

Voiced Consonants? Unvoiced Consonants?

Pronunciation Points

Telephone Tutoring

Preliminary Diagnostic Analysis CD 1 Track 3

Chapter 1 American Intonation

The American Speech Music CD 1 Track 4

What to Do with Your Mouth to Sound American

American Intonation Do's and Don'ts

What Exactly Is Staircase Intonation?

Three Ways to Make Intonation

Exercise 1-1: Rubber Band Practice with Nonsense Syllables CD 1 Track 5

Staircase Intonation CD 1 Track 6

Statement Intonation with Nouns

Statement Intonation with Pronouns CD 1 Track 8

Exercise 1-3; Noun and Pronoun Intonation CD 1 Track 9

Statement Versus Question Intonation CD 1 Track 10

Emotional or Rhetorical Question Intonation

Exercise 1-4: Sentence Intonation Test CD 1 Track 11

Exercise 1-5: Four Main Reasons for Intonation CD 1 Track 12

1. New Information

2. Opinion

3. Contrast

4. Can't

Exercise 1-6: Pitch and Meaning Change CD 1 Track 13

Exercise 1-7: Individual Practice CD 1 Track 14

Exercise 1-8: Meaning of "Pretty" CD 1 Track 15

Exercise 1-9: Inflection CD 1 Track 16

Exercise 1-10; Individual Practice CD 1 Track 17

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Overdo It

We All Do It

Exercise 1-11: Translation CD 1 Track 18

Intonation Contrast

Exercise 1-12: Create Your Own Intonation Contrast CD 1 Track 19

Exercise 1-13: Variable Stress CD 1 Track 20

Exercise 1 -14: Make a Variable Stress Sentence CD 1 Track 21

Application of Intonation CD 1 Track 22

Exercise 1 -15: Application of Stress CD 1 Track 23

How You Talk Indicates to People How You Are CD 1 Track 24

Exercise 1-16: Paragraph Intonation Practice CD 1 Track 25

Exercise 1-17: Staircase Intonation Practice CD 1 Track 26

Exercise 1-18: Reading with Staircase Intonation CD 1 Track 27

Exercise 1-19: Spelling and Numbers CD 1 Track 28

Exercise 1-20; Sound/Meaning Shifts CD 1 Track 29

Exercise 1-21: Squeezed-Out Syllables CD 1 Track 30

Syllable Stress CD 1 Track 31

Syllable Count Intonation Patterns

Exercise 1-22: Syllable Patterns CD 1 Track 32

1 Syllable

2 Syllables

Exercise 1-22: Syllable Patterns continued CD 1 Track 32

3 Syllables

Exercise 1-22; Syllable Patterns continued CD 1 Track 32

4 Syllables

Exercise 1-23; Syllable Count Test CD 1 Track 33

Complex Intonation

Word Count Intonation Patterns CD 1 Track 34

Exercise 1-24: Single-Word Phrases CD 1 Track 35

Two-Word Phrases

Descriptive Phrases CD Track 36

Exercise 1-25: Sentence Stress with Descriptive Phrases CD 1 Track 37

Exercise 1 -26: Two Types of Descriptive Phrases CD 1 Track 38

Exercise 1 -26: Two Types of Descriptive Phrases continued CD1 Track 38

Exercise 1-27: Descriptive Phrase Story—The Ugly Duckling CD1 Track 39

Set Phrases CD 1 Track 40

A Cultural Indoctrination to American Norms

Exercise 1-28: Sentence Stress with Set Phrases CD 1 Track 41

Exercise 1-29: Making Set Phrases CD 1 Track 42

Exercise 1-30: Set Phrase Story—The Little Match Girl CD 1 Track 43

Contrasting a Description and a Set Phrase

Exercise 1-31: Contrasting Descriptive and Set Phrases CD 1 Track 44

Exercise 1-32: Two-Word Stress CD 1 Track 45

Descriptive Phrase Set Phrase

Summary of Stress in Two-Word Phrases

First Word

Second Word

Nationalities

Exercise 1-33; Nationality Intonation Quiz CD 2 Track 1

1. an Américan guy

2. an American restaurant

3. Américan food

4. an American teacher

5. an Énglish teacher

Exercise 1-34: Contrasting Descriptive and Set Phrases CD 2 Track 2

Exercise 1-35: Contrast of Compound Nouns CD 2 Track 3

Exercise 1-36: Description and Set Phrase Test CD 2 Track 4

Exercise 1-37: Descriptions and Set Phrases—Goldilocks CD 2 Track 5

Grammar in a Nutshell CD 2 Track 6

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Grammar... But Were Afraid to Use

Exercise 1-38; Consistent Noun Stress in Changing Verb Tenses CD 2 Track 7

Exercise 1-39: Consistent Pronoun Stress In Changing Verb Tenses CD 2 Track 8

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Exercise 1-40: Intonation in Your Own Sentence CD 2 Track 9

Exercise 1 -40: Intonation in Hour Own Sentence continued CD 2 Track 9

1-40: Intonation in Your Own Sentence continued CD 2 Track 9

Exercise 1-41: Supporting Words CD 2 Track 10

Exercise 1 -42: Contrast Practice CD 2 Track 11

Exercise 1 -43; Yes, You Can or No, You Can't ? CD 2 Track 12

Exercise 1 -44: Building an Intonation Sentence CD 2 Track 13

Exercise 1 -46: Regular Transitions of Nouns and Verbs CD 2 Track 15

Exercise 1-47: Regular Transitions of Adjectives and Verbs CD 2 Track n

Exercise 1-48; Regular Transitions of Adjectives and Verbs CD 2 Track 17

The Miracle Technique CD 2 Track 18

A Child Can Learn Any Language

Exercise 1 -49: Tell Me Wədai Say! CD 2 Track 19

Exercise 1-50: Listening for Pure Sounds CD 2 Track 21

Exercise 1-51 : Extended Listening Practice CD 2 Track 22

Reduced Sounds CD 2 Track 24

Reduced Sounds Are "Valleys"

Exercise 1-52; Reducing Articles CD 2 Track 25

Exercise 1-53: Reduced Sounds CD 2 Track 26

Exercise 1-53: Reduced Sounds continued CD 2 Track 26

Exercise 1-53; Reduced Sounds continued CD 2 Track 26

Exercise 1-53: Reduced Sounds continued CD 2 Track 26

Exercise 1 -53: Reduced Sounds continued CD 2 Track 26

Exercise 1-54: Intonation and Pronunciation of "That" CD 2 Track 27

Exercise 1-55: Crossing Out Reduced Sounds CD 2 Track 28

Exercise 1-56; Reading Reduced Sounds CD 2 Track 29

Word Groups and Phrasing CD 2 Track 30

Pauses for Related Thoughts, Ideas, or for Breathing

Exercise 1-57: Phrasing CD Track 31

Exercise 1-58: Creating Word Groups CD 2 Track 32

Exercise 1-59: Practicing Word Groups CD 2 Track 33

Exercise 1-60: Tag Endings CD 2 Track 34

Intonation

Pronunciation

Chapter 2. Word Connections CD 2 Track 35

Exercise 2-1 : Spelling and Pronunciation CD 2 Track 36

Liaison Rule 1 : Consonant / Vowel

Exercise 2-2: Word Connections CD 2 Track 37

Exercise 2-3: Spelling and Number Connections CD 2 Track 38

What's the Difference Between a Vowel and a Consonant?

Exercise 2-4: Consonant / Vowel Liaison Practice CD 2 Track 39

Exercise 2-4: Consonant / Vowel Liaison Practice continued CD 2 Track 39

Liaison Rule 2: Consonant / Consonant

Exercise 2-5: Consonant /Consonant Liaisons CD 2 Track 40

Exercise 2-6: Consonant / Consonant Liaisons CD 2 Track 41

Consonants

Exercise 2-7: Liaisons with TH Combination CD 2 Track 42

Exercise 2-8: Consonant / Consonant Liaison Practice CD 2 Track 43

Liaison Rule 3: Vowel / Vowel

Exercise 2-9: Vowel / Vowel Liaison Practice CD 2 Track 44

Liaison Rule 4: T, D, S, or Z + Y

Exercise 2-10; T, D, S, or Z + Y Liaisons CD 2 Track 45

T + Y = CH

Exercise 2-10: T, D, S, or Z + Y Liaisons continued CD 2 Track 45

D + Y = J

S + Y = SH

Z + Y = ZH

Exercise 2-10: T, D, S, or Z + Y Liaisons continued CD 2 Track 45

Exercise 2-11:T, D, S, or Z + Y Liaison Practice CD 2 Track 46

Exercise 2-12; Finding Liaisons and Glides CD 2 Track 47

Exercise 2-13: Practicing Liaisons CD 3 Track 1

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Exercise 2-14: Additional Liaison Practice CD 3 Track 2

Exercise 2-15: Colloquial Reductions and Liaisons CD 3 Track 3

Exercise 2-15: Colloquial Reductions and Liaisons continued CD 3 Track 3

Spoon or Sboon?

Exercise 2-16: Liaison Staircases CD 3 Track 4

Chapter 3. Cat? Caught? Cut? CD 3 Track 5

The [æ] Sound

The [ä] Sound

The Schwa [ə] Sound

Silent or Neutral?

Vowel Chart

Exercise 3-1 : Word-by-Word and in a Sentence CD 3 Track 6

Exercise 3-2: Finding [æ], [ä], and [ə] Sounds CD 3 Track 7

Exercise 3-3: Vowel-Sound Differentiation CD 3 Track 8

Exercise 3-4: Reading the [æ] Sound CD 3 Track 9

The Tæn Mæn

Exercise 3-5: Reading the [ä] Sound CD strack 10

A Lät of Läng, Hät Walks in the Garden

Exercise 3-6: Reading the [ə] Sound CD 3 Track 11

What Must the Sun Above Wonder About?

Chapter 4. The American T CD 3 Track 12

Exercise 4-1 ; Stressed and Unstressed T CD 3 Thick 13

Exercise 4-2: Betty Bought a Bit of Better Butter CD 3 Track 14

Betty Bought a Bit of Better Butter

Exercise 4-3: Rute 1—Top of the Staircase CD 3 Track 15

Exercise 4-3; Rule 1—Top of the Staircase continued CD 3Track 15

Exercise 4-4: Rule 2—Middle of the Staircase CD 3 Track 16

Exercise 4-5: Rule 3—Bottom of the Staircase CD3 Track 17

Exercise 4-5: Rule 3—Bottom of the Staircase continued CD 3 Track 17

Exercise 4-6: Rule 4—"Held T" Before N CD 3 Track 18

Exercise 4-7: Rule 5—The Silent T CD 3 Track 19

Exercise 4-9: Karina's T Connections CD 3 Track 21

Exercise 4-10: Combinations in Context CD 3 Track 2:

Exercise 4-11 : Voiced and Unvoiced Sounds with T

Exercise 4-12: Finding American T Sounds CD 3 Track 24

Voiced Consonants and Reduced Vowels

1. Reduced vowels

2. Voiced consonants

3. Like sound with like sound

4. R'lææææææææææx

Chapter 5. The El CD 3 Track 25

L and Foreign Speakers of English

Location of Language in the Mouth

The Compound Sound of L

L Compared with T, D, and N

T and D N

Exercise 5-1 : Sounds Comparing L with T, D, and N CD 3 Track 26

T/D Plosive

Exercise 5-1 ; Sounds Comparing L with T, D and N continued CD 3 Track 26

Exercise 5-2; Sounds Comparing L with T, D, and N CD 3 Track 27

What Are All Those Extra Sounds I'm Hearing?

Exercise 5-3: Final El with Schwa CD 3 Track 28

Exercise 5-4: Many Final Els CD 3 Track 29

Exercise 5-5: Liaise the Ls CD 3 Track 30

Exercise 5-6: Finding L Sounds CD 3 Track 31

Exercise 5-7: Silent Ls CD3Track32

Exercise 5-8: Hold Your Tongue! CD 3 Track 33

Exercise 5-9: Little Lola CD 3 Track 34

Exercise 5-11 : Final L Practice CD 3 Track 36

Exercise 5-12: Thirty Little Turtles In a Bottle of Bottled Water CD 3 Track 37

Exercise 5-13: Speed-reading CD 3 Track »

Exercise 5-14: Tandem Reading CD 3 Track 39

Voice Quality CD 3 Track 40

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