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Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing
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Patricia Marr Cunningham
Written by an outstanding scholar, Phonics They Use seamlessly weaves together the complex and varied strategic approaches needed to help students develop reading and spelling skills. Long-positioned and long-respected as a bestseller by both pre-service and practicing teachers of reading, this affordable text offers a coherent collection of ...
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Fundamentals of Phonetics: A Practical Guide for Students
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Larry H Small
The new edition of Small's Fundamentals of Phonetics offers a refreshingly unique and thorough practice-based approach to learning the skills necessary for expert phonetic transcription of individuals with disordered speech. Emphasis is placed on the issues tied to linguisitic phonetics with an introduction to clinical phonetics, and issues ...
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Phonics Pathways: Clear Steps to Easy Reading and Perfect Spelling
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Dolores G Hiskes
Now in its ninth edition, "Phonics Pathways" (with help from Dewey the Bookworm[trademark]) teaches students of all ages the rudiments of phonics and spelling with an efficient, practical, and foolproof method. Written in an easy-to-use format, "Phonics Pathways" is organized by sounds and spelling patterns. The patterns are introduced one at a ...
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Common Errors in English Usage
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Paul Brians
Mixed-up, mangled expressions; foreign-language faux pas; confused and confusing terms; commonly mispronounced words - they're all explained in this useful guide.
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Student Book, Newcomer Phonics
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Schaum's Outline of English Grammar
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Eugene H Ehrlich, Laurie Rozakis, PhD
"English Grammar, Third Edition", now has new practice sections with drills to help students grasp tricky grammatical structures. An introductory glossary defines all the most important grammatical elements and concepts. Exercises demonstrate and demystify every grammatical topic and reinforce students' skills. A complete answer key for all ...
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English Pronouncing Dictionary
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Daniel Jones
A major new edition of the classic guide to English pronunciation: *Over 18, 000 new entries added *Full coverage of North American pronunciation *New, clearer layout *Stress patterns of thousands of compounds and idioms Areas of coverage have been selected to reflect today's interests and needs, and, as well as general vocabulary, include: ...
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Vowels and Consonants
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Peter Ladefoged
This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics is now available in a fully updated second edition. Peter Ladefoged describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages. Important topics covered in "Vowels and Consonants" include: the main forces operating on the sounds ...
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A Course in Phonetics
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Peter Ladefoged
Provides a broad overview of the branches of phonetics for students with no prior knowledge. Ladefoged's approach builds on the basics, beginning with technical terms required for describing speech and transcription symbols before moving on to the phonetics of English and other languages.
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Articulate Voice: An Introduction to Voice & Diction
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Lynn K Wells
The Articulate Voice taps into the most current research to clearly and concisely deliver the basics on voice production and techniques for improving pitch, rate, volume, and quality. One reviewer praised, "This is a rare find in comparison to other voice and diction textbooks." Another calls The Articulate Voice "a model of clarity and concision."
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Elements of Acoustic Phonetics
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Peter Ladefoged
This expanded edition provides a concise introduction to basic concepts of acoustics and digital speech processing that are important to linguists, phoneticians, and speech scientists. "Far and away the best available treatment of basic acoustics for linguists and phoneticians". -- Michael Studdert-Kennedy, Haskins Laboratories
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Voice and Diction: A Program for Improvement
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Jon Eisenson
Voice and Diction: A Program for Improvement, seventh edition, provides comprehensive coverage of voice production, voice improvement, and articulation. In addition, pertinent material from related disciplines of speech and hearing sciences, linguistics, and phonetics is included. The seventh edition is updated to reflect contemporary information ...
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Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling
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David Wolman
Wolman offers an engaging narrative that spells out the history of the English language and the people who have tried to make spelling make sense.
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Introducing Phonology
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David Arnold Odden
This accessible textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonology, the study of sound patterns in language. Designed for students with only a basic knowledge of linguistics, it teaches in a step-by-step fashion the logical techniques of phonological analysis and the fundamental theories that underpin it. Through over sixty graded ...
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Teaching American English Pronunciation
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Peter W Avery, Susan Ehrlich
This is a comprehensive introduction to teaching the pronunciation of North American English. It includes an illustrated description of the sound system of English, ideas for overcoming pronunciation problems specific to fifteen different languages, and a variety of approaches and techniques for use in the classroom.
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Phonics Through Poetry: Teaching Phonemic Awareness Using Poetry
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Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
This collection of 115 poems is meant to be read aloud so that children hear a particular language sound again and again, in word after word, all within an enticing and meaningful context. For each poem there are word lists, hands-on activities, plus unique Focusing Talk "TM" activities that help you model vocabulary in conversations with children ...
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Phonology in Generative Grammar
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Michael J Kenstowicz
This is the most comprehensive and current introduction to phonological theory and analysis. Presupposing only minimal background in linguistics, the book introduces the basic concepts and principles of phonological analysis and then systematically develops the major innovations in the generative model since Chomsky and Halle's Sound Patterns of ...
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Reading with phonics
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Julie Hay, Charles Enos Wingo
This is a highly structured, sequential phonics program designed to teach students to read quickly and efficiently.
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The Sound Pattern of English
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Professor Noam Chomsky
The theoretical issues raised in The Sound Pattern of English continue to be critical to current phonology, and in many instances the solutions proposed by Chomsky and Halle have yet to be improved upon.
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A Practical Introduction to Phonetics
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J C Catford
An understanding of phonetics - of the mechanisms of speech, of how the sounds of language are produced, and of how they can be analysed and classified - is an essential acquirement for all those who have to deal with language and languages either theoretically or practically. This book is an introduction to general phonetics which explores the ...
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English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course
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Peter Roach
Recognised as the most practical and comprehensive text in the field of phonetics, this third edition of English Phonetics and Phonology includes revised transcriptions, a wider discussion of different varieties of English and an updated treatment of intonation.
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The Sounds of Japanese with Audio CD
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Timothy J Vance
This introduction to the sounds of Japanese is designed for English-speaking students with no prior knowledge of the language, and includes an audio CD which demonstrates the sounds and pronunciation described. It will be an invaluable resource for students of Japanese wishing to improve their pronunciation, as well as those studying Japanese ...
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Elements of General Phonetics
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David Abercrombie
This classic introduction is designed for students with no previous knowledge of phonetics in linguistics, speech therapy, and modern languages. It remains one of the best descriptions of the main topics in the study of phonetics.
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Is There a Cow in Moscow?: More Beastly Mispronunciations and Sound Advice: Another Opinionated Guide for the Well-Spoken
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Charles Harrington Elster
Elster has selected 475 commonly mispronounced words, arranged them alphabetically and written an essay on how each word is spoken - and mis-spoken - on the airwaves, in the office, and on the street. The author has sifted through dictionaries and other sources, both historic and modern, in an attempt to arrive at an informed consensus on how ...
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The Penguin guide to punctuation
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R. L. Trask
The Penguin Guide to Punctuation is indispensable for anyone who needs to get to grips with using punctuation in their written work. Whether you are puzzled by colons and semicolons, unsure of where commas should go or baffled by apostrophes, this jargon-free, succinct guide is for you.
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