TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Gillian
TI  - Listening to spoken English
SN  - 0582052971
U1  - 421.5 22
PY  - 1990///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Longman
KW  - English language
KW  - Spoken English
N1  - Contents
Chapter 1:The need to teach the comprehension of spoken English
Slow colloquial English and normal speech
Testing or teaching comprehension
The processes of comprehension
The accent of English described in this book

Chapter 2: Ideal segments, syllables and words
The phoneme
The consonants of English
Place of articulation
Manner of articulation
The vowels of English
The ideal syllable and the ideal word

Chapter 3: The function of Rhythm
The rhythmic structure of English
Stressed and unstressed syllables
Pause: rests in rhythm
The function of stress
Word stress
Stressed words in sentences

Chapter 4: Patterns of simplification in informal speech
Adjustment to surroundings
Elision
Word boundary markers
Consonants and vowels in the stream of speech
Reduction in visual cues

Chapter 5: The function of intonation
The ideal organization of tone groups
The ideal placing of tonic
Tone group and tonic in spontaneous speech
Pitch direction

Chapter 6: Paraliguistic features
Pitch span
Placing in voice range
Direction of pitch
Tempo
Loudness
etc

Chapter 7: Teaching listening comprehension 
Identifying the problem
Recognizing the code 
Processing the complete text
Purposeful listening
The social context of listening
etc
; Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-176) and index
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