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ENGLISH PHONETICS

rounded 
variant under 
the influence of a following rounded vowel phoneme, as at the beginning of the following 
words: 
Unrounded variants of 
 
 
 
Rounded variants of 
 consonant phonemes 
 
 
 
consonant phonemes
 
 
[ t
ɪ
: ]
tea 
 
 
 
 
 
[ tu: ]
too 
 
[ les]
less
 
 
 
 
 
[ lu:s]
loose 

[n
ʌ
n]
none 
 
 
 
 
 
[ nu:n]
noon 
 
(2)
A
fully back
variant of a back vowel phoneme is replaced by its lightly 
advanced
(fronted) variant under the influence of the preceding mediolingual phoneme [j] 
Fully back variant of [u:] 
 
 
 
Fronted variant of [u:] 
['bu:t
ɪ
]
booty
 
 


['bju:t
ɪ
]
beauty 
[mu:n ]
moon
 
 
 

['mju:z
ɪ
k]
music 
 
(3)
A vowel phoneme is represented by its 
slightly more open
variant before the dark [
ł

under the influence of the latter’s back secondary focus. Thus the vowel sound in 
bell, tell
is slightly more open than the vowel in 
bed, ten 
( [beł] – [bed], [teł] – [ten] )

 
 
Elision 
 
 
In rapid colloquial speech certain notional words may lose some of their sounds (vowels 
and consonants). This phenomenon is called 
elision. 
Elision occurs both within words and 
at word boundaries. 
 
phonetics
[f
ə
u'net
ɪ
ks] 
[ f 'net
ɪ
ks]
 
 
 
mostly
['m
ə
ustl
ɪ

['m
ə
usl
ɪ
]
 
 
 
all right 
['

:l 'ra
ɪ
t ] 
['

:ra
ɪ
t ]
 

 
next day 
['nekst 'de
ɪ

['neks 'de
ɪ
]
Ω 
Some effects of [d] and [t] elision. 
 
1.
You hear the final [
d
] or [
t
] in the root of some words, but not when a suffix is added. 
For example:
 
Without elision 
 
 
With elision 
It was perfect
 
It was perfec(t)ly marvelous 
That’s exact
 
That’s exac(t)ly right 
She’s full of tact 
 
She’s very tac(t)ful 
What does she want?
She wan(t)s some butter 


32 
One pound of butter
Ten poun(d)s of butter
2.
Elision can also affect the  for simple past and past participle. This means that, at 
speed, there may be no difference between present and past simple.
Slow version
 
 
 
Fast version 
I watch television every day.
 
I watch television every day. 


I watched television last night. 
 
I watch(ed) television last night. 

 
They crash the car regularly.
 
They crash the car regularly. 
They crashed the car yesterday. 
 
They crash(ed) the car yesterday. 
I wash my hands before I have lunch.
I wash my hands before I have lunch. 
I washed my hands before I had lunch.
I wash(ed) my hands before I had lunch. 
They usually finish their work at six. They usually finish their work at six. 
They finished work early yesterday.
They
 
finish(ed) work early yesterday. 
Elision giving rise to assimilation 
 
In sequences such as 
ten boys
and 
ten girls
assimilation takes place because the sounds 
involved are already next to each other. 
By contrast in others such as 
the second boy
and 
the second girl
assimilation only takes 
place because the intervening sound – the [d] in this case – has been elided. 
There are hundreds of set expressions involving this combination of [
d
] or [
t
]
 
 
 
Phonetic drills 
 
1. Listen to the tape and practise reading
Elision + assimilation 
 
Using “and”
eggs an(d) bacon 
 
[

egz
ə
m 'be
ɪ
k
ə
n]
 
boys an(d) girls 
 
[

b

ɪ
z
ə
ŋ
 
 '
ɡə
:lz]
 
tea an(d) coffee 
 
[

t
ɪ
:
ə
ŋ ' k

f
ɪ
 ]
 
en(d)s an(d) means
[

enz
ə
m 'm
ɪ
:nz]
 
Negative [t] 
I won(

t) be coming.
[a
ɪ
 

w
ə
um b
ɪ
'k

m
ɪ
ŋ]
 
She can(

t) go. 
 

ʃ
ɪ
'ka:ŋ
 
'
ɡə
u ]
 
Can(

t) pay, won(

t) pay 
[

ka:mpe
ɪ
 'w
ə
umpe
ɪ
]
 
I don(

t) care.
 
[ a
ɪ


ə
uŋ 'ke
ə
]
 
2. Analyze the words given below and state the type of accommodation. 
Cool, bell, music, thought, belt, cue, lunar, who 
3.
What vowels or consonants are elided in rapid speech within the following words or at 
word boundaries: 
Ω 


33 
factory
[
'
fæktr
ɪ
]
, national
[
'


nl]
, perhaps
[præps]
, already 
[

:
'
red
ɪ
]
, lastly
[
'
la:sl
ɪ
]
, you mustn’t lose it
[ju
'
m

sn
ˎ
lu:z 
ɪ
t]
, wouldn’t he come
[
'
wudn
ɪ
ˏ
k

m]
, I’ve got to go
[a
ɪ

'
ɡ

t
ə
ˎɡə
u]
, we could try
[w
ɪ
k
ə
ˎ
tra
ɪ
]
,
let me come in
[
'
lem
ɪ
k

m
ˎɪ
n]
 
Palatalization 
 
Palatalization is a secondary articulation in which the front of the tongue is raised 
toward the hard palate. Palatalization of consonant is not a phonemic feature in English 
though the consonants [
ʃ
], [
ʒ
], [
ʧ
], [
ʤ
] are slightly palatalized. 
 
 
 
 
Flapping 
 
Flapping is a process in which a dental or alveolar stop articulation changes to a flap (r) 
articulation. In English this process applies to both [t] and [d] and occurs between vowels, 
the first of which is generally stressed. Flaps are heard in the casual speech pronunciation 
of words such as 
butter, writer, fatter, wader and waiter,
and even in phrases such as 
I bought it
 
[a
ɪ


r
ɪ
t]
.
The alveolar flap is always voiced. Flapping is considered a type of assimilation 
since it changes a non-continuant segment (a stop) to a continuant segment in the 
environment of other continuants (vowels). 
Dissimilation 
 
Dissimilation, the opposite of assimilation, results in two sounds becoming less alike in 
articulatory or acoustic terms. The resulting sequence of sounds is easier to articulate and 
distinguish. It is a much rarer process than dissimilation. One commonly heard example of 
assimilation in English occurs in words ending with three consecutive fricatives, such as 
“fifth”. Many speakers dissimilate the final [f

s] sequence to [fts], apparently to break up 
the sequence of three fricatives with a stop. 
Deletion
Deletion is a process that removes a segment from certain phonetic contexts. Deletion 
occurs in everyday rapid speech in many languages. In English, a schwa [
ə
] is often 
deleted when the next vowel in the word is stressed.
Deletion of [
ə
] in English. 
Slow speech 
Rapid speech 
[p
ə
ˈ
re
I
d] 
[k
ə
ˈ
r
ə
ud] 
[s
ə
ˈ
p
ə
uz] 
[pre
I
d] parade 
[kr
ə
ud] corrode 
[sp
ə
uz] suppose 
 
Comparative Study 


34 
Compare the careful speech and rapid speech pronunciation of the following English 
words and phrases. Then name the process or processes that make the rapid speech 
pronunciation different from the careful speech.
 
 
 
 
Careful Speech 
 
Rapid Speech 
a)
in my room 
 
[
ɪ
n ma
ɪ
ˈ
rum]
[
ɪ
mma
ɪ
rum] 
b)
 
I see them
[a
ɪ
ˈ
s
ɪ:
ðə
m] 
[a
ɪ
ˈ
s
ɪ:ə
m]
 
c)
 
within 
 
 
[w
ɪð
ˈ
ɪ
n] 
[w
ð
ɪ
n]
 
d)
 
balloons
[b
ə
ˈ
lu:nz] 
[blu:nz]
 
e)
 
sit down
[
ˈ
s
ɪ

ˈ
daun] 
[s
ɪ 
ˈ
d
aun]
 
f)
 
Pam will miss you
[
ˈ
pæm w
ɪ

ˈ
m
ɪ
s ju:] 
[
ˈ
pæml
ˈ
m
ɪ

u]
 
 
Phonetic drills 
1.
Practise reading the following sentences: 
a nice tie – nice ties 
 
 
a red pencil – red pencils 
a busy day – busy days 
 
 
a fine night – fine nights 
a large class – large classes 
 
a bad pen – bed pens 
a black desk – black desks 
 
a thin neck – thin necks 
2.
Read the following words paying special attention to the correct positional length of the 
vowels in them. Write down the transcription. 
me – mean – meet 
why – wide – white 
too – tool – tooth 
far – barn – park 
for – born – port 
I – mine – might 
say – main – make 
 
3.
Practise reading the following words: 
[
θ
s]
[
ð
z] 
m
ʌ
n


m
ʌ
n

s
months 
p
α
:

-
p
α:ð
z paths 
dep


dep

s
depths 
tru:

-
tru:
ð
z truths 
b
ɜ:


b
ə:

s
births
b
α:

-
b
α: ð
z baths 
leŋ


leŋ

s
lengths
mau

-
mau
ð
z mouths 

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