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| Pronunciation Feature | Introduction | Author/Developer | Length | Contributor |
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| Anatomy of speech production | Overview of everything from respiration, phonation, articulation & resonance. | Ozarks Technical Community College | 16 slides | Colleen Meyers |
| Lip workout | Great exercise for helping students for whom lip movement needs work when speaking English, e.g., /iy/, /ow/, etc. | Marsha Chan | 3:35 | Colleen Meyers |
| Pronunciation Feature | Introduction | Author/Developer | Length | Contributor |
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| Vowels and Consonant Sounds | This website has step-by-step descriptions, as well as animations of how to produce each of the vowel and consonant sounds in English. It also includes German and Spanish. | University of Iowa | Several pages | Colleen Meyers |
| Vowels | This is the Color Vowel Chart which many instructors use to teach vowel sounds. | Karen Taylor and Shirley Thomson | 1 web page | Colleen Meyers |
| Pronunciation Feature | Introduction | Author/Developer | Length | Contributor |
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| Spanish Speakers: /b/ vs. /v/ sounds and vowel reduction in unstressed syllables | Notice how enunciating the /v/ sound makes the word "invited" more clear. In addition, reduction of unstressed vowels in the last two syllables of "chocolate" makes the word more" intelligible. | Aspen Productions | 2:27 | Colleen Meyers |
| /p/ vs. /b/ for Arabic speakers | Observe how a piece of paper can help Nafeth with the aspirated /p/ in "Palestinian." | Aspen Productions | 0:33 | Colleen Meyers |
| Final /l/ for Portuguese and Vietnamese speakers | Observe how work on linking "Brazil is" works for the Portuguese speaker and how learning how to avoid nasalizing the final /l/ works for the Vietnamese speaker. | Aspen Productions | 1:07 | Colleen Meyers |
| /l/ and /r/ sounds: pencil trick | Using a pencil to help students feel and see differences between /l/ and /r/ especially final position. | Colleen Meyers | 2:45 | Colleen Meyers |
| /r/ sound | Some good tips, such as lip protrusion for saying the /r/ sound. | Paul Gruber | 4:47 | Colleen Meyers |
| /v/ sound | Work on friction and air to build up strength in lips. | Colleen Meyers | 3:08 | Colleen Meyers |
| Pronunciation Feature | Introduction | Author/Developer | Length | Contributor |
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| Intonation of American English | Written overview of pitch—introduces 4 levels used in ToBI system | Pronuncian.com | 1 page | Colleen Meyers |
| Intonation in English: Part I | It uses parts from the Celce-Murcia book. It has a dialogue at the end to illustrate. | Edna Lima | 8:35 | Colleen Meyers |
| Pronunciation Feature | Introduction | Author/Developer | Length | Contributor |
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| Introduction to Word Stress and Rhythm | This video introduces the concepts of word stress and rhythm. It includes PRAAT visuals to help visualize. | Rachel's English | 4:18 | Colleen Meyers |
| Using Audacity to Work on Word Stress | An excellent tutorial on using Audacity to record one’s production of word stress to match the model recording. | Edna Lima | 6:38 | Colleen Meyers |
| Introduction to function words in English | This introduces the concept of function words (unstressed) words. | Rachel's English | 5:33 | Colleen Meyers |