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English Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish fills a gaping hole
in the market for books on English phonetics and pronunciation
because it not only combines theoretical issues and applications to
practice, but it also adopts a contrastive English-Spanish approach
to better suit the needs of Spanish-speaking learners of English
(SSLE), enabling them to build gradually on the knowledge gained in
each chapter. The book covers the key concepts of English phonetics
and phonology in seven chapters written in an accessible and
engaging style: 1. Phonetics and Phonology 2. The Production and
Classification of Speech Sounds 3. Vowels and Glides 4. Consonants
5. Segment Dynamics: Aspects of Connected Speech 6. Beyond the
Segment: Stress and Intonation 7. Predicting Pronunciation from
Spelling (and vice versa) Features: in-text audio illustrations, as
well as over a hundred written and audio exercises with
corresponding keys and different kinds of artwork (Tables, Figures,
illustrations, spectrograms, etc.) classic readings in the
discipline in the Further Reading section of each chapter
highlights the phonetic contrasts and specific cues that are more
important to aid comprehension in English and offers guidelines on
"correct" pronunciation habits to help SSLE sound as close as
possible to native English The book's companion website, EPSS
Multimedia Lab, can be used on computers, smartphones and tablets,
and is useful for the self-taught student and the busy lecturer
alike. Features of the website: a complete sound bank defining and
illustrating the sounds of English RP as compared with those of
Peninsular Spanish written definitions and animated diagrams,
videos and original recordings (by native speakers of English and
Spanish) showing the articulation of each sound, alongside its most
common spellings, as well as pronunciation practice for individual
words and whole sentences a comprehensive selection of over a
hundred written and audio exercises (with their keys) for practice
both at home or in the language lab audio files corresponding to
the audio illustrations given in the written book a repository of
useful resources by topics and a list of online glossaries and
pronunciation dictionaries
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