American Accent Training, Cook A., 2012

American Accent Training, Cook A., 2012.

   American Accent Training goes where no American accent program has gone before, providing innovative instruction of the highest quality to students and businesspeople. Pronunciation exercises cover all vowel sounds, consonants, blends, and diphthongs. Supplementary materials include detailed nationality guides for 10 languages: Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Korean, Arabic, and the U.S. Southern accent.
Four all-new chapters in this expanded third edition discuss the psychology of accent acquisition, explain American voice quality, and present both students and teachers of American English with detailed pronunciation overviews. Five instructive audio CDs enclosed with this book use professional male and female voices to complement the text and present in-depth demonstrations of American English as it is spoken today.




The American Sound.
You know how you hear a voice across a crowded room and you can just tell that it's American? What's at play there? To answer that question, let's first define our terms: What is voice quality and the American sound? It's a combination of vocal placement and cadence. This means a throaty sound and a stairstep intonation.

Listen to British comedian Eddie Izzard imitate the American accent. Notice how his voice moves back in his throat and down in his chest when he's imitating the American accent. This throaty quality is an essential characteristic. There's even a fancy word to describe it-rhoticity-which is that solid Ras in hard and far. There are regional dialects that are notable for lacking rhoticity, such as the classic Bostonian Pahk yah cah in Hahvahd Yahd for Park your car in Harvard Yard, but the overwhelming majority of Americans growl out the R.

Contents.
Introduction: Read This First.
Preliminary Diagnostic Analysis.
Chapter 1 The American Sound.
Voice Quality.
Intonation and Attitude.
Chapter 2 Psycholinguistics.
Chapter 3 General Pronunciation.
Chapter 4 American Intonation.
Chapter 5 Syllable Stress.
Chapter 6 Complex lntonation.
Two-Word Phrases.
Chapter 7 Phrasing.
Chapter 8 The Miracle Technique.
Chapter 9 Grammar in a Nutshell.
Chapter 10 Reduced Sounds.
Chapter 11 Word Connections.
Chapter 12 Cat? Caught? Cut?.
Chapter 13 Tee Aitch.
Chapter 14 The American T.
Chapter 15 The American R.
Chapter 16 The El.
Chapter 17 S or Z?.
Mid-Point Diagnostic Analysis.
Chapters 1-17 Review and Expansion.
Chapter 18 More Reduced Sournds.
Chapter 19 "V" as in Victory.
Chapter 20 Tense and Lax Vowels.
Chapter 21 The Ridge.
Chapter 22 Grammar in a Bigger Nutshell.
Chapter 23 Practical Application.
Chapter 24 Nasal Consonants.
Chapter 25 Throaty Consonants.
Final Diagnostic Analysis.
Nationality Guides.
Chinese.
Japanese.
Spanish.
lndian.
Russian.
French.
German.
Korean.
Arabic.
The American South.
Answer Key.
Teacher's Guide.
Index.



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