MODIFICATIONS OF PHONEMES IN SPEECH.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 614.

-idiolectal modifications of phonemes (variations) means a peculiar way of pronouncing phonemes by each and every speaker because of the difference in the form of speech organs, because of belonging to different cultures. Idiolect is the way each of the specks;

-diaphonic variations are caused by regional differences of pronunciation or regional accents, dialects;

-allophonic variations are caused by the position of a phoneme in a word or it's phonetic environment

Ex. Oh \ou\

It is so late \so le догори ногами it\

Not so late \not so le догори ногами it\

In these 3 examples one and the same phoneme “o” is pronounced differently in 3 different phonetic environment. The choice of the allophone also depends on the style of speech.

Ex. Literary speech (Receive Pronunciation –RP- it's a standard of British pronunciation ,and standard American in American English) or Colloquial speech;

-in unstressed syllables there occur the reduction of vowels. Reduction means weakening of articulation and shortening of a vowel. It leads to the changes of the quality and quantity of a vowel. Mostly unstressed vowels are reduced to \e догори ногами\

Ex. Not so late

-accomodation is the modification of a vowel under the influence of (mainly) the following consonant

Ex. See \si:\- in this word \e\ is pronounced as a long vowel

Seem \si:m\- in this word \e\ is pronounced a little bit shorter because it's followed by a voiced consonant (sonorant) \m\

Seat \si:t\ -in this word long \e\ is pronounced rather short because it is followed by a voiceless consonant \t\.

So the length of the vowel in real speech depends much on its position and the neighboring consonants.

-assimilation is the process when a consonant changes its quality under the influence of neighboring consonants:

Ex. Hash- \s\ changes into \s-ш\

How do you do ?(= I'm glad to meet you) may be reduced to \haudze догори ногами du:\ -\d\ is reduced to \dz\.