This text explains the theoretical and practical rationale for teaching connected speech (CS) and offers useful pedagogical applications. The authors describe the basic phonemes (consonants, vowels, and diphthongs) of spoken North American English and examine word stress, utterance stress, and timing, as they are related to CS.

PART A IN THE BEGINNING

Chapter 1 Where Connected Speech Fits into English Language Learning

Chapter 2 Transcribing Speech Sounds

Chapter 3 Word Stress

Chapter 4 Utterance Stress and Timing

PART B AS A RULE

Chapter 5 Phoneme Variations

Chapter 6 Simple Transitions

Chapter 7 Dropping Sounds

Chapter 8 Inserting Sounds

Chapter 9 Changing Sounds

Chapter 10 Connected Speech Combines Multiple Processes

James Dean Brown is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Hawai'i at M¿noa, USA.

Dustin Crowther is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at University of Hawai'i at M¿noa, USA.