Part One English Pronunciation and Superstructural Features

Unit 1 Front Vowels Central Vowels English Syllables

Unit 2 Back Vowels Word Stress

Unit 3 Closing Diphthongs Sentence Stress

Unit 4 Centralized Diphthongs Weak Form

Unit 5 Plosion Loss of Plosion or Incomplete Plosion

Unit 6 Fricatives Consonant Clusters

Unit 7 Fricatives English Liaison/Linking

Unit 8 Affricates Assimilation

Unit 9 Nasals Falling Tone

Unit 10 Laterals Rising Tone and Rising-falling Tone

Unit 11 Semivowels English Rhythms

Unit 12 Sense Group and Pausing American Pronunciation

Part Two Imitation and Practice

Unit 1 Short Passages

Unti 2 Famous Speeches

Unit 3 VOA＆BBC

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