List of Audio Tapes To Accompany
Accurate English: A Complete Course in Pronunciation

Copyright 1993 by R. M. Dauer.
Theme music by Lazlo & Helen Slomovits copyright 1988 ASCAP.
Side A of each tape begins with a copyright statement.

Tape

Page

Chapter & Contents

1A

6

1.4 Diagnostic Speech Sample

14

2.3 Table 2-1: Phonetic Alphabet

26

3.1 Ex. A: Vowel Warmup, Listening test

27

3.1 Ex. D: Vowels before <n, l, r>

28

3.2 American English Vowel Sounds

29

3.3 American English Vowel Sounds in Sentences

1B

45

4.5 Table 4-1: Alternations of vowel quality, Ex. A

50

4.6 Prac. 10, 11: /ã/ versus Vowel + /ã/

56

5.1 Ex. G: Vowel review listening test

57

5.2 Dialogues for Vowels

63

6.2 Table 6-1: Vowel reduction in unstressed endings

69

6.4 Table 6-2: Stress placement & suffixes

72

6.4 Ex. H, I: Stress placement in related words

2A

74

7.1 Prac. 1: Stress & reduction in noun-verb word pairs

76

7.1 Prac. 3: Stress & reduction in words ending in <-ate>

77

7.1 Ex. A, B, C: Stress placement

79

7.2 Prac. 5: Alternation reduced & full vowels, Ex. A: Dialogue

81

7.3 Prac. 6: Disappearing syllables, Ex. A: Dialogue

90

8.2 Prac. 2: CAN & CAN'T

92

8.2 Ex. F: Dialogues for weak forms

98

8.3 Ex B: Reading--Big Two-hearted River

99

8.3 Ex. E: Dialogues for linking

2B

112

10.3 Prac. 2: Compounds vs. non-compounds, Listening test

114

11.1 Ex. A, B: Readings--Motion, The Scientific Method

130

12.2 American English Consonant Sounds

132

12.3 American English Consonant Sounds in Sentences

3A

145

13.5 Ex. F: Voiced & voiceless Consonants, Listening test

145

13.5 Ex. G: Dialogues for voiced & voiceless Consonants

151

14.1 Ex. E: <ed> sentences, Listening test

152

14.1 Ex. I: Reading--Howard's Morning

155

14.2 Ex. F, G: <s> listening test

157

14.2 Ex. K, L: Readings--Laundry Time, Wonderland

3B

161

14.3 Ex. A, B: Sentences for consonant groups

162

14.3 Ex. E: Dialogues for consonant groups

168

15.1 Ex. E: Dialogues for /sC, z/

173

15.2 Ex. F: Reading for /T, D, s, z/

174

15.2 Ex. G: Dialogues for /T, D/

183

15.4 Ex. D: Reading for unstressed /dZ/

186

15.5 Ex. A: Sentences for /Z/

188

15.5 Ex. G: Reading for /S, Z, tS, dZ/

189

15.5 Ex. I: Dialogues for /S, Z, tS, dZ/

192

15.6 Ex. A, B: Sentences for /ts, dz/

4A

197

15.7 Ex. G: Dialogues for /v, b, w/

200

15.8 Ex. E: Dialogue for /h/

207

15.9 Ex. D: Final <l> and <r> sentences, Listening test

208

15.9 Ex. E, F: Reading & Dialogues for <l> and <r>

212

15.10 Ex. C: Dialogues for final nasals

218

15.12 Ex. B, C: Consonant review listening test

4B

220

16.1 Prac. 1, 2: Intonation, Listening test

227

16.2 Ex. A, B, C, D, E: Sentences for neutral intonation

229

16.2 Ex. H: Dialogue for neutral intonation

232

16.3 Ex. A, C, D: Moving sentence stress, Readings

236

16.4 Ex. A, B, C, D: Changing pitch, Readings

239

16.5 Ex. A, B: Choice and tag questions

240

16.6 Dialogues for intonation

Summary of Contents

Time

Tape 1,

side 1A

Chapters 1 - 3

43:00

side 1B

Chapters 4 - 6

43:30

Tape 2,

side 2A

Chapters 7 - 8

46:00

side 2B

Chapters 10 - 12

39:00

Tape 3,

side 3A

Chapters 13 - 14.2

38:30

side 3B

Chapters 14.3 - 15.6

45:00

Tape 4,

side 4A

Chapters 15.7 - 15.12

34:00

side 4B

Chapter 16

45:00


Produced by Rebecca M. Dauer
ESL Program| UAASC| University of Massachusetts, Amherst.