ACCURATE ENGLISH 4 nN iN Gi Ny { y NW > i Pa DAN Rebecca M. DauerLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data DDoucr, Rebooea M. "Accurate English a complete course in pronunciation / Rebecea M. aver. Poem Includes index. ISBN 0-13.007253-2 1. English language~Pronuncition. 2. English language “Textbooks for foreign speakers. I. Tite. Y PEII37.D36 1993 42834-4620 92.3309 cr __EditoriaProduction Supervision ‘and Interior Design: Ros Herion Freese ‘Acquisitions Editor: Nancy Leonhardt Copyeditor Jennifer Carey ‘Cover Design: Marianne Frasco Cover Photo: Reginald Wickham Prepress Buyer: Ray Keating Manufactuing Buyer: Lor Buin Scheduler: Leslie Coward © 1993 by Rebecea M. Daver Published by Prentice Hall Regents Prentice sal, ne. Al rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form or by any means. ‘without permission in writing from the publisher. 1d in the United States of America 2019 ISBN 0-13-007253-2Contents Preface vi « Overview and Suggested Plan vii ‘Types of Exercises ix How to Use Audio Tapes x 1 Introduction 7 1.1 The Speech Process 7 1.2 Language Variation 3 1.3 Self-Analysis 4 1.4 Diagnostic Speech Sample 6 1.5 Analysis of Problems 8 2 The Phone Alphabet 12 21 English Spelling /2 2.2 The Phonetic Alphabet 13 3 Vowel Overview 20 3.1 Production of Vowels 20 3.2 American English Vowel Sounds 28 3.3 American English Vowel Sounds in Sentences 29 4 Vowels in Detail 30 4.1 Vowels 1-4: fi,1,1,e/ 30 4.2 Vowels 5-8: /az,a,9,0/ 35 4.3 Vowels 9-11: /00,0,u/ 39 44 Vowels 13-15:/at,a0, 1/43 4,5 Same Spelling, Different Pronunciation (Advanced) 45 4.6 Vowel 12: /e/ and Vowels Followed by 47 5 Review of the Phonetic Alphabet and Vowels 5.1 Review Exercises 53 5.2 Dialogues for Vowels 57 53