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Beyond Words: Five Tricks to Improve Student Pronunciation
Nancy Swisher, Lecturer in ESL, NC State UniversityEditor, the ESL GLOBE
[email protected]/~nmswishe
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What makes up our accents?
phonological characteristics of individual sounds
www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html
Minimal pairs: beat/bit, made/mad, pill/bill
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Five Tricks to Improve Comprehensibility
Word, Phrase and Sentence Stress
Today I will go to the gym to work out.
0.6 sec. 0.6 sec. 0.6 sec.
0.6 sec.0.6 sec.0.6 sec.
Most men like cars.
From Rhythm and Unstress by Howard B. Woods
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Five Tricks to Improve Comprehensibility
Stress content words:
nouns / main verbs / adjectives / adverbs negatives / wh-words / interjections
Reduce or weaken function words:
articles / conjunctions / prepositionspronouns / auxiliary verbs
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Five Tricks to Improve Comprehensibility
Focus in Phrases (thought groups) and Sentences
A woman / without her man / is nothing. A woman / without her / man is nothing.
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Intonation
Five Tricks to Improve Comprehensibility
The soccer game is this weekend.
When? When?
I have to see Dr. Smith.
I have to see, Dr. Smith.
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Five Tricks to Improve Comprehensibility
Reduced Forms
wanna gonna hafta
shoulda woulda coulda
Whaddaya Say?
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Five Tricks to Improve ComprehensibilityLinking
Sup? Sko!
Jeet? No, joo?
Ledder gedda bedder wädr heedr.
What’s up? Let’s go!
Did you eat? No, did you?
Let her get a better water heater.
Mad Gabs
Ask Rude Arrive Her A screwdriver
Plea Sway Tube Ease Heated
Please wait to be seated.
Chick He Tub An An Us Chiquita bananas