Assimilation ex.82-83 TEXT FOR STUDY: ASSIMILATION ex.84 19. American pronunciation SIX DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH ex.70-75 QUIZZES ON AMERICAN PRONUNCIATION ex.76-77 TEXT FOR STUDY: AMERICAN PRONUNCIATION ex.78 15. Suffixes ex.67-69 Part C: Aspects of pronunciation in the dictionary 14. Alternative pronunciations with different stress ex.64-66 13. Stress marking PRIMARY STRESS ex.44-45 SECONDARY AND PRIMARY STKKSS ex.46-47 TERTIARY STRESS ex.48-50 MIXED PATTERNS ex.51-53 10. Pairs of words with different stress ex.39-43 9. Compression COMPRESSION INVOLVING A CONSONANT ex.32-35 COM PRESSION INVOLVING A VOWEL ex.36-37 CONVERSATION FOR STUDY: SYLLABIC CONSONANTS AND ex.38 COMPRESSION Part B: Stress in words and phrases 8. Optional sounds SOUNDS SHOWN IN ITALICS: ELISION ex.23-26 SOUNDS SHOWN BY RAISED LETTERS: INSERTION ex.27 CONVERSATION FOR STUDY: OPTIONAL SOUNDS ex.28 6. INFLECTIONS AND DERIVED FORMS ex.21-22 5. Inflected and derived words ex.19-20 APPLICATION EXERCISES ON LAYOUT OF ENTRIES. Alternative pronunciations DIAGNOSTIC EXERCISE ex.12 ALTERNATIVES AT THE BEGINNING OF A WORD ex.13 ALTERNATIVES AT TH E END OF A WORD ex.14 ALTERNATIVES IN THE MIDDLE OF A WORD ex.15 COMBINATIONS OF ALTERNATIVES ex.16 ALTERNATIVE PRONUNCIATIONS INVOLVING THE SYMBOL ▪ ex.17 QUIZ ON ALTERNATIVE PRONUNCIATIONS ex.18 4. What pronunciations are given: the layout of entries ex.9-11 3. Characters used in phonemic transcription ex.1-8 2. 2 CONTENTS Introduction Part A: Pronunciations and variants 1. ISBN 6.2 Set in Monophoto Century Schoolbook Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay PLC., Bungay, Suffolk. © Longman Group UK Limited 1990 All rights reserved: no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the Publishers. LONGMAN PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARY STUDY GUIDE Clare Fletcher Longman 1 Longman Group UK Limited Longman House, Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex CM20 2JE, England and Associated Companies throughout the world.

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