EFS 698C - STANFORD UNIVERSITY

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EFS 698C: Week 4 Notes
 

I. Pronunciation overview

            A. Basic sounds (phonemes): http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#; 
                 see also http://www.manythings.org/pp/ for practice with difficult sound distinctions

            B. Rhythm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_timing

            C. Stress: www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/word-stress.htm

            D. Intonation: www.americanaccent.com/intonation.html

            E. Linking: www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/linking.htm

            F. Reduced forms: www3.telus.net/linguistics issues/ReducedForms.html.

Practice at www.englishcentral.com  

II. Review of each other's public abstracts

III. Return to pronunciation: intonation

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Homework:

1. Review the pronunciation links above

2. Practice pronunciation with www.englishcentral.com and the intonation practice sentences on at least four different days. Write a brief report about your experience. In that report, specify 1) the material you practiced with; 2) when you did it (e.g., 1/31 8:00-8:30pm); 3) your procedure--how you went through the material; 4) comments about how useful (or not) you think it was. Send me the report by Monday morning so that I can read it before our meeting.

3. For the individual meeting, send me anything else you want to, up to 10 pages double-spaced.