University:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Course:
21G.223 | Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation
Academic year:

2019
Views:

421

Pages:

4
Author:

Pablo Anthony

ADJUSTMENTS IN CONNECTED SPEECH These help to maintain rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables, not SLOPPY speech! -Linking-one sound moves smoothly to another -Assimilation-adjacent sounds become similar -Oeletion-a sound is dropped -Epenthesis-a sound is added LINKING - 5 types: 1. V + V Iyl glides liyl leyl layl /;)yl Iwl glides be able, react playoff, say it my own boyish luwl two apples lowl no action lawl how are you 2. VC + V - consonant belongs to both syllables Oream on! 1 3. CC + v ~ C + CV resyllabification Ifayn-dawtl IPAS-tAp I 4. Identical consonants - articulated as one long one stop pushing [p: ] 5. Co (stop) + C (stoP. bad dog [d:] affricate) blackboard, soap dish ASSIMILATION-one sound (=the assimilated sound) takes on characteristics of another (=the conditioning sound) 3 types: 1. progressive (conditioning sound -> assimilated sound) -s ending breg ~ z brek ~ s -ed ending map ~ t mab ~ d 2. regressive (assimilated sound conditioning sound) 2 ~ grandpa ~ /grrempa/ have + to = hafta /haaf ~ t<3/ has + to = hasta /haas ~ t<3/ used + to = usta /yuws ~ t<3/ 'i n' impossible, Lrregular, illegal 3. Coalescent assimilation - 2 adjacent sounds combine to form new sound Palatalization (p. 162) /s/+/y/ ~/J/ I guess your coming? pressure /z/+/y/~i3/ So, he's your brother? leisure It/+/yl Is that your dog? feature -,>/tJI Its / + / Y /-..,./tJ / What's your name? /d/+/y/ Could you come? cordial -'>/d31 She needs your help. 3 . DELETION -disappearing It I "- ... -It,dl in the middle of a 3-consonant cluster restless, East side -unstressed medial vowel loss (syncope) chocolate evening different interesting -loss of Irl February governor temf!l(~ature I f'{bl~r1/ It;... . . r~d tid rj ra ) -loss of Ivl in 'of' waste of time Iweystatayml -loss of initial Ihl in pronouns ask her told him EPENTHESIS-insertion of a sound -s & -ed endings boxes 4 needed ........... -