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Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Companion Website
- I. FUNDAMENTALS
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Word Structure
- Word Stem
- Prefixes
- Suffixes
- Grammatical Endings
- Compound Words
- Word Stress
- II. VOWELS
- Chapter 3: Introduction to Vowels
- Chapter 4: Monophthongs I: Tongue Vowels
- Long and Closed [i?], Non-Syllabic [i?], Short and Open [?]
- Exercises for [i?], [i], [i?], and [?]
- Long and Closed [e?], Long and Open [??], Short and Open [?], Schwa [?]
- Exercises for [e?], [e], [??], [?], and [?]
- Long and Open [??], Short and Closed [a]
- Exercises for [??] and [a]
- Chapter 5: Monophthongs II: Lip Vowels
- Long and Closed [o?], Short and Open [?]
- Exercises for [o?], [o] and [?]
- Long and Closed [u?], Short and Open [?]
- Exercises for [u?], [u?] and [?]
- Chapter 6: Monophthongs III: Mixed Vowels
- Long and Closed [o?], Short and Open [oe]
- Exercises for [o?] and [oe]
- Long and Closed [y?], Short and Open [?]
- Exercises for [y?],[y?] and [?]
- Chapter 7: Diphthongs
- Diphthongs [a?e], [??o] and [??o]
- Exercises for [a?e], [??o], and [??o]
- III. CONSONANTS
- Chapter 8: Introduction to Consonants
- Chapter 9: Fricatives
- Labiodental Fricative [f] and [v]
- Exercises for [f] and [v]
- Alveolar Fricative [s] and [z]
- Exercises for [s] and [z]
- Pre-Palatal Fricative [?] and [?]
- Exercises for [?] and [?]
- Pre-Palatal Fricative [?], [c] and Velar Fricative [x]
- Exercises for [?], [c] and [x]
- Glottal Fricative [h]
- Glottal Separation [?]
- Exercises for [h] and [?]
- Chapter 10: Plosives
- Bilabial Plosives [p] and [b]
- Exercises for [p] and [b]
- Alveolar Plosives [t] and [d]
- Exercises for [t] and [d]
- Velar Plosives [k] and [?]
- Exercises for [k] and [?]
- Chapter 11: Nasals
- Bilabial Nasal [m]
- Alveolar Nasal [n]
- Velar Nasal [?]
- Exercises for [m], [n] and [?]
- Chapter 12: Laterals and Trills
- Alveolar Lateral [l]
- Exercises for [m], [n] and [?]
- Alveolar Trills [r] and [?], Vocalic-R [?] and Uvular Trill [?]
- Exercises for [r], [?], [?] and [?]
- Chapter 13: Affricates
- Affricates [p?s], [p?f], [t?s], [t??], [k?s], and [k?v]
- Exercises for [p?s], [p?f], [t?s], [t??], [k?s], and [k?v]
- IV. ADVANCED DICTION PROBLEMS
- Chapter 14: Exceptions, Vagaries and Problem Words
- Vowel Length Exceptions
- Final -ie in Words of Non-Germanic Origin
- Eszett, ss and Vowel Length
- Vowel Length Preceeding x
- Prefixes dar-, her-, hin-, vor-
- Consonant plus l, n, or r
- Ending -ig
- Consonant Combination ch
- Diminutive Ending -chen
- Foreign origin words
- No Rhyme or Reason
- Chapter 15: Sounds from Foreign Loanwords
- French Nasalized Vowels [??], [??], [o?], [oe?]
- French Semi Vowel Glides [w], [?]
- Chapter 16: German Latin
- APPENDIX
- Alphabetical Index of German Spellings
- Index of Difficult Words, Names and Exceptions
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- General Index