کتاب (American Accent Training (4th

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کتاب American Accent Training با شعار (شهروندان آمریکا، حرف شما را بهتر می‌فهمند و شما نیز، حرف شهروندان آمریکا را بهتر متوجه خواهید شد.) و با هدف آموزش تلفظ صحیح لهجه آمریکایی برای افرادی که قصد شروع و تقویت مهارت‌های تلفظ در سطوح ابتدایی، متوسط و پیشرفته را دارند، انتشار یافته است.
کتاب پیش‌رو از هفده فصل تشکیل شده ‌است که حاوی آموزش و تمرینات فراوان می‌باشد. همچنین از آنجایی که یادگیری صحیح تلفظ، نیازمند شنیدن واج های صامت و مصوت مختلف می‌باشد، لذا به همراه این کتاب یک لوح فشرده صوتی نیز ارائه شده‌است که هم آموزش و هم تمرینات صوتی کتاب را دربر گرفته‌است.

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Reduced Sounds Are "Valleys"
American intonation is made up of peaks and valleys-tops of staircases and bottoms of staircases. To have strong peaks, you will have to develop deep valleys. These deep valleys should be filled with all kinds of reduced vowels, one in particular-the completely neutral schwa. Ignore spelling. Since you probably first became acquainted with English through the printed word, this is going to be quite a challenge. The position of a syllable is more important than spelling as an indication of correct pronunciation. For example, the words photograph and photography each have two O's and an A. The first word is stressed on the first syllable, so photograph sounds like fod'graef. The second word is stressed
On the second syllable, photography, so the word comes out f'tahgr'fee. You can see here that their spelling doesn't tell you how they sound. Word stress or intonation will determine the pronunciation. Work on listening to words. Concentrate on hearing the pure sounds, not on trying to make the word fit a familiar spelling. Otherwise, you will be taking the long way around and giving yourself both a lot of extra work and an accent!
Syllables that are perched atop a peak or a staircase are strong sounds; that is, they maintain their original pronunciation. On the other hand, syllables that fall in the valleys or on a lower stair step are weak sounds; thus, they are reduced. Some vowels are reduced completely to schwas, a very relaxed sound, while others are only toned down. In the following exercises, we will be dealing with these "toned down" sounds. In the introduction ("Read This Firstpage iv) I talked about over pronouncing. This section will handle that over pronunciation. You're going to skim over words; you're going to dash through certain sounds. Your peaks are going to be quite strong, but your valleys, blurry-a very intuitive aspect of Intonation that this practice will help you develop.
Articles (such as the, a) are usually much reduced sounds. Before a consonant, the and a are both schwa sounds, which are reduced. Before a vowel, however, you'll notice a change-the schwa of the turns into a long e plus a connecting M--Th' book changes to the" only book; A hat becomes a nugly hat. The article a becomes an. Think of a nornj rather than an orange; nopening, a neye, an imaginary animal.

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• نویسنده: Ann Cook
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