Pronouncing English Sounds
We use the 26 letters of the alphabet in English writing. However, when speaking there are roughly 44 different sounds in English. We call these sounds phonemes. If you're concentrating on the sounds of English, there are 44 characters to represent them all. One way of doing this is to use the 'phonemic alphabet', which has some extra characters to represent the sounds in English for which there is no clear equivalent letter or letters… Click here for fuller tutorial information:
http://www.soundsofenglish.org/pronunciation/sounds.htm
http://www.englishlanguageguide.com/english/pronunciation/vowels.asp
http://www.englishlanguageguide.com/english/pronunciation/consonants.asp
http://www.englishlanguageguide.com/english/pronunciation/suprasegmentals.asp
http://www.englishlanguageguide.com/english/pronunciation/stress-intonation.asp
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/english.htm
http://www.fonetiks.org/engsou2.html
Stress and intonation
In linguistics, intonation is the variation of pitch when speaking. Intonation and stress are two main elements of linguistic prosody. Many languages use pitch semantically, for instance to convey surprise and irony or to change a statement to a question. Such languages are called intonation languages. English and French are well-known examples. Some languages use pitch to distinguish words; these are known as tonal languages. Chinese, Thai, and Hausa are examples… For more details, click here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonation_(linguistics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosody_%28linguistics%29 (Prosody)
http://esl.about.com/od/speakingadvanced/a/timestress.htm
http://thormay.net/lxesl/tesol/intonation/intonation1.htm
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/esl0108.html
http://www.languagerealm.com/langarticles/tone_accent_stress_intonation.php
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/rhyme.html (Rhyme and rhythm)
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