TY - BOOK AU - Kozyrev,Joann TI - Sound Bites: Pronunciation Activities SN - 0618259724 (Student Book) PY - 2005/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - English language KW - Pronunciation KW - Textbooks for foreign speakers N1 - "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 N2 - 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 ER -