III. MODIFICATION OF PHONEMES IN CONNECTED SPEECH

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1. The mechanism of articulatory transition of phonemes in connected speech.

a) Three stages of the articulation of a sound.

b) Two ways of joining sounds in connected speech: merging of stages, interpenetration of stages/close and loose types of transition.

2. The phenomenon of assimilation.

3. The phenomenon of elision.

4. English consonants in connected speech.

5. English vowels in connected speech.

Tasks and exercises:

1. Show graphically the ways of transition between the sounds in the following words, define the type of transition: hole, ten, bottle, clear, month.

2. Transcribe the following words and groups of words. Point to the assimilation, define its type:

help Peter, breadth, apron, is that, three, swallow, horse-shoe, this year, nature, what's, cupboard, five pence, gooseberry, on the table, read well, Britain, madness, at last.

3. Explain possible mistakes in the close CC transition:

anecdote, blackboard, birthday, is that, pass them, in the, although.

4. State what cases of assimilation can be observed in rapid colloquial speech in the examples below:

whitewash, head boy, short cake, Christmas shopping, good night, that side, ten boys, good morning, light blue, meat pie, can't you, would you, does she, these years, can go, ten kangaroos.

5. Transcribe the words and groups of words, point to the consonants (a) and vowels (b) that may be elided. Single out examples of historically established elision:

a) next time, handbag, postman, chalk, last Saturday, empty, Humpty-Dumpty, autumn, attempt, already, lastly, knight, landscape, dustbin, Westminster, cost price, next stop, sandwich, grandfather, raspberry, you mustn't lose it, let me come in, I've got to go;

b) nursery, policeman, difficult, banana, perhaps, awfully, interesting, suffering, national, factory.

6. Read the following joke and explain by means of which phonetic process it has become a source of humour:

Mr. Smith: My wife has left for the West Indies.

Mr. Brown: Jamaica?

Mr. Smith: No, on her own accord.

Recommended literature:

1. Sokolova M.A. English Phonetics. A Theoretical Course. – M., 1991. – pp. 59-65, 73-75, 83-93.

2. Leontyeva S.F. A Theoretical Course of English Phonetics. – M., 1970. – pp. 145-154.

3. Vassilyev V.A. English Phonetics. A Theoretical Course. – M., 1970. – pp. 134-218.

4. Vassilyev V.A. English Phonetics. – M., 1980. – pp. 70-75.

5. Соколова М.А., Гинтовт К.Л. и др. Практическая фонетика английского языка. – М., 1984. – С. 64-78, 116-118/М., 1997. – С. 66-84, 122-132.