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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
d
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
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factory
[
'
fæktr
ɪ
]
, national
[
'
næ
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
v
'
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
b´
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
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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
t
ˈ
daun]
[s
ɪ
ˈ
d
aun]
f)
Pam will miss you
[
ˈ
pæm w
ɪ
l
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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