Teaching Pronunciation: A Course for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Book

	List of Figures and Tables
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Transcription Key
Pt. I	Pronunciation Instruction in Perspective	1
Ch. 1	The History and Scope of Pronunciation Teaching	2
Ch. 2	Research on the Teaching and Acquisition of Pronunciation Skills	14
Pt. II	The Sound System of North American English: An Overview	35
Ch. 3	The Consonant System	37
Ch. 4	The Vowel System	93
Ch. 5	Stress, Rhythm, and Adjustments in Connected Speech	131
Ch. 6	Prominence and Intonation in Discourse	175
Pt. III	Intersections of the Sound System with Other Areas of Language	221
Ch. 7	The Sound System and Listening	222
Ch. 8	The Sound System and Grammar: Inflectional Morphology and Parts of Speech	247
Ch. 9	The Sound System and Orthography	269
Pt. IV	Issues in Implementation	289
Ch. 10	New Directions in the Teaching of Pronunciation	290
Ch. 11	Pronunciation in the Language Curriculum	319
Ch. 12	Testing and Evaluation	341
Appendix 1	Differences Between NAE (North American English) and British English	363
Appendix 2	Comparison of Phonetic and Phonemic Alphabets	371
Appendix 3	Positional Occurrence of NAE Consonants	373
Appendix 4	English Syllable Structure	375
Appendix 5	Distribution of Vowels Before Nasal Consonants	376
Appendix 6	Commonly Reduced Function Words	377
Appendix 7	Constraints on Contraction and Blending	380
Appendix 8	Irregular Verbs in English	382
Appendix 9	Tense-Lax Vowel Alternations in Stressed Syllables of Base Forms and Derived Words	387
Appendix 10	Consonant Letter-Sound Correspondences and Variations (including digraphs)	389
Appendix 11	Systematic Differences in British and American Spelling	395
Appendix 12	Profile Questionnaire Used at UCLA	396
Appendix 13	Diagnostic Passage and Accent Checklist	398
Appendix 14	ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines for Speaking	400
Appendix 15	Speech Intelligibility/Communicability Index for Describing Speech and Evaluating Its Impact on Communication	403
Appendix 16	Speaking Performance Scale for UCLA Oral Proficiency Test for Nonnative TAs	404
Appendix 17	Self-Evaluation Form: Interview Role Plays	405
	Bibliography	407
	Answer Key for "On the Cassette" Exercises	420
	Author Index	427
	Subject Index	429