本书强调了元音、辅音的正确发音，并对原因的细节、容易出现问题的辅音进行重点讲解；讲解了音节和单词重音，语调等，并列出了一些特例。
V, W, B, TH和美式发音R, 强调正确的重音音节，正式英语和口语的用词区别、同音字词 (如 they're 和there), 正确分辨有不发音字母的单词 (comb, receipt等), 避免令人尴尬的发音错误（party 和 potty
Lisa Mojsin（莉萨·莫吉辛）是Mastering the American Accent一书的作者，也是“The American Accent Course”（美国口音教程）DVD的作者。她拥有超过20年的教学经验，向美国和海外的不同文化背景的专业人士教授英语发音和沟通技巧。她会说五种语言，并拥有“教授英语给母语为其他语言的人”的硕士学位。她在圣莫妮卡学院任教达15年，也是加州大学洛杉矶分校、洛约拉马利蒙特大学、西洛杉矶大学、奥蒂斯艺术与设计学院的教授。
Contents
Introduction vi
Chapter 1: The Vowel Sounds 1
Production of Vowels 1
The Main Vowel Soundsof American English 3
/i/ as in meet /i/meet4
// as in sit //sit4
/e/ as in take /e/take6
// as in get //get7
/?/ as in fat /?/fat8
// as in father //father9
// as in fun //fun10
//as in saw //saw11
/o/ as in boat /o/boat13
// as in good //good14
/u/ as in too /u/too14
/?r/ as in bird /?r/bird16
/a/ as in time /a/time16
/a/ as in house /a/house17
// as in boy //boy18
Chapter 2: Vowels in Detail 19
Review of // and /i/ Sounds///i/ 19
Review of // and /?/ Sounds///?/ 20
Review of //, //, //, and /o/ Sounds ///////o/ 21
The Problematic o o 22
Three Different Waysto Pronounce the Letter o o25
Review of /?/ versus // /?///25
The American // Sound //26
Review of //, /?/, //, //, //, and /o/ ///?////////o/ 28
The Problematic // Sound // 29
Review of // and /u/ Sounds///u/ 30
/u/ versus /ju/ /u//ju/30
Review of the /?r/ Sound /?r/ 31
Vowels Followed by the/r/ Sound /r/32
Chapter 3: Consonants 33
Forming AmericanConsonants 33
Voiceless and VoicedConsonants 34
Vowel Length andVoiced and Voiceless Consonants 35
Stops and Continuants 37
Chapter 4: Problematic Consonants 39
The Various t Sounds of American English t39
The “Fast d” Sound d43
The /tr/ Sound: tr /tr/tr 44
The /dr/ Sound: dr /dr/dr 44
The /d/ Sound: du and d y /d/dud y 45
The /t/ Sound: tu and t y /t/tut y 45
Words Ending in -ed -ed46
The th Sound th49
The American /r/ /r/ 53
The American /l/ /l/ 56
Understanding /l/versus /r/ /l//r/58
The /v/ Sound /v/61
Understanding /b/versus /v/ /b//v/62
The /w/ Sound /w/63
Understanding /v/versus /w/ /v//w/64
The /s/ and /z/ Sounds/s//z/65
The /?/ Sound: Pronouncing ng /?/ng68
Consonant Clusters 70
Chapter 5: Syllable Stress 73
Stressed and ReducedVowels 73
Comparing Stressed andReduced Vowels 76
Dangers of Stressingthe Wrong Syllable 78
General Rules forStress Placement 79
Reduced Vowels forReview 86
Chapter 6: Word Stress 89
Compound Nouns 89
Proper Stress withAdjectives 91
Phrasal Verbs 93
Noun Forms of PhrasalVerbs 94
Abbreviations andNumbers 95
Names of Places andPeople 96
Word Stress Within aSentence 96
Which Words Should IStress? 98
Reducing Vowels inUnstressed Words 101
Thought Groups andFocus Words 106
Contrastive Stress 107
Chapter 7: Intonation 109
Falling Intonation 109
Rising Intonation 110
Non-final Intonation 111
Wavering Intonation 113
Chapter 8: Sound Like a True Native Speaker
115
Linking: ConnectingWords for Smoother Speech Flow 115
Rules for Linking 116
Contractions 125
Conditional Tense andContractions 130
Casual versus FormalSpeech 132
Chapter 9: Memorizing the Exceptions 135
Same Spelling,Different Pronunciation 136
Two CorrectPronunciations 137
Words with DroppedSyllables 137
Words with SilentLetters 138
Homophones 139
Native Language Guide 141
Chinese 141
Index 149
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