Reduction
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 401.
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Read the sentence on p. 287, divide the sentences into intonation groups, explain the use of tones.
Read the text, define the cases of assimilation affecting the manner of the production of noise and resulting in the loss of plosion, the lateral, nasal and fricative plosions. Write the examples in the right columns:
| Loss of plosion | Lateral plosion | Nasal plosion | Fricative plosion |
Read the text and group the words from the paragraph on p.85 into the columns according to the number of syllables they contain:
| Monosyllabic words | Disyllabic words | Three-syllable words | Four-syllable words |
Comment on the peculiarities of the word stress in English.
Find in the text the words containing the lateral sonorant /l/, transcribe them. Comment on the realisation of /l/ in speech.
Find in the text and transcribe the words containing the following vowel phonemes: /aU/, /@U/, and comment on their graphical rules.
In English there are certain words which have two forms of pronunciation: strong or full, and weak or reduced form. There are three degrees of reduction of strong forms:
1) reduction of the length of the vowel without changing its quality ( quantitative reduction): you /ju:/; he /hi:/ - /hi/.
2) the reduction changing the quality of the vowel (qualitative reduction): for /fo:/ - /fə/.
3) the omission of a vowel zero reduction): am /em/ - /m/.
2. Elision (ellipsis, omission, deletion)
in rapid colloquial speech some notional words may loose of their sounds (vowels, consonants). Formal speech tends to retain full form of the words. Elision occurs within a word or word-boundaries: phonetics /founetiks/ - /fnetiks/, camera /kaemərə/ - /kaemrə/.
3. Nasalization of vowels
Slight degree of nasalization marks vowels preceded or followed by [n, m]: never, no, then, men.
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