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Exercise 1-10; Individual Practice Now, let's see what you can do with the same sentence, just by changing the stress around to different words. I'll tell you which meaning to express. When you hear the tone, say the sentence as quickly as you can, t
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Statement Intonation with Pronouns When you replace the nouns with pronouns (i.e., old information), stress the verb. They eat them. As we have seen, nouns are new information; pronouns are old information. In a nutshell, these are the two basic into
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Statement Versus Question Intonation You may have learned at some point that questions have a rising intonation. They do, but usually a question will step upward until the very end, where it takes one quick little downward step. A question rises a li
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Exercise 1-9: Inflection Notice how the meaning changes, while the actual words stay the same. ......1...... I didn't say he stole the money. Someone else said it. ......2....... I didn't say he stole the money. That's not true at all. ......3......
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Exercise 8-6: The middle l list The letter l in the unstressed position devolves consistently into a schwa. Repeat. Ability Accident Accountability Activity Adversity American Analytical Animal Applicant Application Article Astronomical Audible Audit
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Exercise 1-36: Description and Set Phrase Test Let's check and see if the concepts are clear. Pause the CD and underline or highlight the stressed word. Check Answer Key, beginning on page 193. Repeat after me. ......1...... He's a nice guy. ......2.
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Liaison Rule 3: Vowel Vowel When a word ending in a vowel sound is next to one beginning with a vowel sound, they are connected with a glide between the two vowels. A glide is either a slight y sound or a slight w sound. How do you know which one to
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Chapter 1 American Intonation The American Speech Music What to Do with Your Mouth to Sound American One of the main differences between the way an American talks and the way the rest of the world talks is that we don't really move our lips. (So, whe
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Staircase Intonation So what is intonation in American English? What do Americans do? We go up and down staircases. We start high and end low. Every time we want to stress a word or an idea, we just start a new staircase. That sounds simple enough, b
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The Miracle Technique Regaining Long-Lost Listening Skills The trouble with starting accent training after you know a great deal of English is that you know a great deal about English. You have a lot of preconceptions and, unfortunately, misconceptio
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Word Groups and Phrasing Pauses for Related Thoughts, Ideas, or for Breathing By now you've begun developing a strong intonation, with clear peaks and reduced valleys, so you're ready for the next step. You may find yourself reading the paragraph in
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Two-Word Phrases Descriptive Phrases Nouns are heavier than adjectives; they carry the weight of the new information. An adjective and a noun combination is called a descriptive phrase, and in the absence of contrast or other secondary changes, the s
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Exercise 1-55: Crossing Out Reduced Sounds Pause the CD and cross out any sound that is not clearly pronounced, including to, for, and, that, than, the, a, the soft , and unstressed syllables that do not have strong vowel sounds. Exercise 1-56: Readi
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Exercise 1-54: Intonation and Pronunciation of That That is a special case because it serves three different grammatical functions. The relative pronoun and the conjunction are reducible. The demonstrative pronoun cannot be reduced to a schwa sound.
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Exercise 1-53: Read aloud from the right-hand column. The intonation is marked for you. To today tonight tomorrow to work to school to the store We have to go now. He went to work They hope to find it. I can't wait to find out. We don't know what to
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Exercise 1 -43: Yes, You Can or No, You Can't? Next you use a combination of intonation and pronunciation to make the difference between can and can't. Reduce the positive can to [k 'n] and stress the verb. Make the negative can't ([k渀(t)]) sound v
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Exercise 1-39: Consistent Pronoun Stress In Changing Verb Tenses This is the same as the previous exercise, except you now stress the verbs: They eat them. Practice this until you are quite comfortable with the intonation. Notice that in fluent speec
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Exercise 1-37: Descriptions and Set PhrasesGoldilocks Read the story and stress the indicated words. Notice if they are a description, a set phrase or contrast. For the next level of this topic, go to page 111. Repeat after me. There is a little girl
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Exercise 1-6: Pitch and Meaning Change Practice saying the four sentences after me. Pay close attention to the changes in pitch that you must make to convey the different meanings intended. The words to be stressed are indicated in bold face. 1. It s
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Exercise 1-8: Meaning of Pretty Native speakers make a clear distinction between pretty easily (easily) and pretty easily (a little difficult). Repeat the answers after me paying close attention to your stress. Question: How did you like the movie? A
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