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Dr. Kay Herbert
MIT OpenCourseWare | Foreign Languages and Literatures | 21F.223 Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation, Fall 2004 | Home
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You have to learn to hear the sounds before you can produce them
Pronunciation is like a skill
Joe wakes up
Factors that influence success
banana
connected speech
elements of pronunciation
Japanese trashcan
Suprasegmental Features
Stress Timed Language
Basic Sentence Stress
Content and Function Words
Walmart Dialogue
Stress patterns that are foreign to you
Basic Stress Exercise
Prominence, shifting stress New Information
Specific information you want to put in focus
Get English Stress Right
in English we make it louder and also higher pitch
I'm working as a speech pathologist
listen to the rhythm
it's also helping you with this business of linking
More Suprasegmental Features
Spoken like Indian Language
Spoken like American
Spoken like American By Class
quick and dirty tip
it's interesting to me
How important are these elements relatively speaking
Improve your accent
linking words together