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Foreign accent management /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Menon, Mythri Srinivasan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Plural Publishing, [2007]
Subjects:
English language > Textbooks for foreign speakers.
English language > Accents and accentuation.
English language > Pronunciation by foreign speakers > Problems, exercises, etc.
English language > Spoken English > Problems, exercises, etc.
Oral communication > Problems, exercises, etc.
English language > Phonetics > Problems, exercises, etc.
Speech Therapy > methods.
Voice Training.
Multilingualism.
Phonetics.
Speech Intelligibility.
Speech-Language Pathology > methods.
Table of Contents:
  • Communication - he said, she said, and finally they said!
  • Oral motor movements--tongue antics
  • Language and speech--nuts and bolts
  • Phonetic transcription--DNA of IPA
  • Vowels--the yin
  • Consonants--and the yang
  • Accents--you speak phunny!
  • Auditory discrimination--ahoy there!
  • Intonation--the sing-song along
  • Non-verbal communication--the mime of the game
  • Pronunciation--mouthful of marbles!
  • Conversation--tete-a-tete.