"Sound Bites is designed to help the low-intermediate-level ESL pronunciation student improve fluency and attain a higher comprehensibility threshold. In addition to chapters focusing on the stress, rhythm, and intonations of North American English, Sound Bites contains 25 short, concise chapters covering the individual vowel and consonant sounds most often used and confused by ESL students at this level. Sound Bites also reaches beyond individual sounds to include thorough attention to suprasegmentals, which, together with the equal practice of listening and speaking, makes this book a powerful learning tool." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

To the Teacher

To the Student

Acknowledgments

Prononciation Improvement Plan

Using a Dictionary to Improve Your Pronunciation

My Pronunciation Notes

Part One STRESS AND RHYTHM
Chapter 1 Syllables
Chapter 2 Syllable Stress
Chapter 3 Rhythm and Sentence Stress
Chapter 4 Focal Stress in Sentences
Chapter 5 Reduced Vowels in Unstressed Syllables
Chapter 6 Contractions

Part Two INTONATION
Chapter 7 Thought Groups and Pausing
Chapter 8 Introduction to Intonation
Chapter 9 Question and Answer Intonation
Chapter 10 Intonation for Tag Questions
Chapter 11 Intonation for Choices
Chapter 12 Intonation for Lists
Chapter 13 Intonation, Emotions, and Attitude

Part Three VOWELS
Chapter 14 Vowels that End in [y] and [w] Glides
Chapter 15 Diphthongs
Chapter 16 [iy] as in seen and [ɪ] as in did
Chapter 17 [ey] as in play, [ɛ] as in send, and [æ] as in bad
Chapter 18 [ɑ] as in not, [ow] as in know, and [aw] as in brown
Chapter 19 [ɑ] as in not, [ʌ] as in fun, and ]æ] as in bad
Chapter 20 [ɑ] as in not and [ay] as in fly
Chapter 21 [ow] as in know, [ɔ] as in saw, and [ʌ] as in fun
Chapter 22 [ɔy] as in coin, [ɑ] as in not, and [ɔ] as in saw
Chapter 23 [uw] as in blue, [ʊ] as in should, and [ʌ] as in fun

Part Four CONSONANTS
Chapter 24 Voiced and Voiceless Sounds
Chapter 25 [ɾ] as in red and [l] as in light
Chapter 26 [θ] as in thing and [ð] as in that
Chapter 27 [b] as in big and [v] as in van
Chapter 28 [b] as in big, [p] as in pig, and [f] as in fight
Chapter 29 [v] as in van and [w] as in wait
Chapter 30 [s] as in sign and [z] as in zero
Chapter 31 [s] as in sing, [ʃ] as in shop, and [tʃ] as in cheap
Chapter 32 [tʃ] as in cheap, [dʒ] as in job, and [y] as in year
Chapter 33 [n] as in nice and [l] as in light
Chapter 34 [m] as in map, [n] as in nice, and [ŋ as in bring
Chapter 35 [h] as in help

Part Five PUTTING SOUNDS TOGETHER
Chapter 36 Final Consonants
Chapter 37 Vowel Length and Endings
Chapter 38 Can and Can't
Chapter 39 Linking
Chapter 40 Numbers Ending in -teen and in -ty
Chapter 41 Voicing and -ed, -s, and -es Endings
Chapter 42 [ʌ] + [ɾ]
Chapter 43 Consonant Clusters
Chapter 44 Adjustments in Fast Speech
Chapter 45 More Adjustments in Fast Speech

Sound Bites is designed to help the low-intermediate-level ESL pronunciation student improve fluency and attain a higher comprehensibility threshold. In addition to chapters focusing on the stress, rhythm, and intonations of North American English, Sound Bites contains 25 short, concise chapters covering the individual vowel and consonant sounds most often used and confused by ESL students at this level -- from cover.

DP Language Lab: English: Pronunciation / Speech: Intermediate.