Shaping Learners' Pronunciation: Teaching the Connected Speech of North American English

by James Dean Brown and Dustin Crowther

A straightforward entry to understanding crucial components of phonological literacy, this essential text explains the theoretical and practical rationale for teaching connected speech (CS) and offers useful pedagogical applications. Brown and Crowther describe the basic phonemes (including consonants, vowels, and diphthongs) of spoken North American English and examine word stress, utterance stress, and timing, as they are related to CS. With...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367697572
• ISBN13: 9780367697570
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"