这本书是讲述美语发音训练的。已经看了一段时间了，决定向周叶学习，记录读书笔记。计划每天花半个小时，学习3节左右的音频（按照CD TRACK)，并完成训练。

CD1

Track1

What is Accent？

Accent is a combination of  three main components:intonation(speech music),liaisons(word connections),pronunciation(the spoken sounds of vowels,consonants,and combinations).

Many people equate accent with pronuncation. But this is not true.

Less than it appears...More than it appears...

有时候我们会加一些音节，有时候则会减少。例如pool单音节听上去像两个音节、feel，business的si不会发出来zi的音。

Language is fluent and fluid.这一小段有不少鼓励的话。“改变发音”就像从手动挡切换到自动挡。

Track2

It shows eight tense vowels and six lax vowels and semivowels.

** take(a),eat(e),ice(i),hope(o),smooth(u),caught（发类似牙医看牙时的声音，“阿”）,cat（发“阿”到e过渡）,down（梅花音+O）。其中前五个，发字母本身的音。

A tense vowels requires you to use a lot of facial muscles.书中有口腔位置的描述。

** get,it,took,some,

** her,dull

voiced consonant and unvoiced consonant

p,b/v,f/s,z/think,that/g,k/t,d/garage,bridge/choke,sheet/

l,r,h,w,j

Pronunciation points:

1、hurry

2、不区分a和sort

3、r按照半元音来处理。

4、ow按照梅花音加o来处理。

5、sibilant and plosive，th 和v 是plosive

Track3 电话测试内容

Chapter1 Intonation

Track4

American Intonation Do‘s and Don‘ts

*Do not speak word by word

*Connect words to form sound groups

*Use staircase intonation

What exatly is “staircase intonation”？

We‘re here；No；

seat和seed,以unvoiced consonant（t，k，s，x，f，sh）结尾的词，前面的元音发的短，一个台阶；,以voiced consonant（b，d，g，z，v，zh，j）结尾的词，前面的元音发的长，像两个台阶；

Three ways to make Intonation

Get louder，streeeetch the word，to change pitch(这一点还要仔细体会是什么意思，会是重音或者音高的变化吗？）.

2016.10.14,英语,《American Accent Training》