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==Practice materials==
 
==Practice materials==
 
(including dialogues - especially good for contrastive stress and sentence stress)
 
(including dialogues - especially good for contrastive stress and sentence stress)
* [[Who's on first?]]: Abbott & Costello's famous skit
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* [http://www.kentlee7.com/phon/argument_clinic.sxw  Monty Python 'Argument Clinic' sketch]
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* [http://www.kentlee7.com/phon/coffeeshop.rtf  Coffee shop confusion] (from Judy Gilbert's <em>Clear Speech</em>)
 
* [http://www.kentlee7.com/phon/limericks.wpd  Limericks]
 
* [http://www.kentlee7.com/phon/mr_obvious.sxw Mr. Obvious: 'The critter'] (from the Bob & Tom show)
 
* [http://www.kentlee7.com/phon/sentstress_dialogs.doc  Various dialogues,] especially for sentence stress & rhythm (some are actual dialogues from a corpus, some are fictional and humorous)
 
* [http://www.kentlee7.com/phon/stupid_people.doc  Stupid people:] an actual conversation between a stupid person and a couple of vendors - hilarious! (it happened at the Univ. of New Hampshire campus; the story was told by one of the vendors, and recorded by a linguistics professor at UNH and passed around among linguists; I got it from a pragmatics course)
 
*  [http://www.kentlee7.com/jazz.chants.pdf Jazz chants]      for practicing English rhythm, especially for younger learners     
 
*  [http://www.kentlee7.com/phon/twisters.pdf  A few tongue twisters]     
 
* [http://www.kentlee7.com/phon/twist1.htm  other tongue twisters, HTML version]
 
  
 
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