Spelling Formal Informal

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Spelling Formal Informal

Spelling Formal Informal

it's paid well its 'peid wel ts 'peid wel

it's necessary its 'nesəsəri ts 'nesəsəri

Likewise in polysyllabic words beginning with the unstressed ex- it is often simplified to [ks].

extremely iks'tri:mli 'kstri:mli

extraordinary iks'trɔ:dnri 'kstrɔ:dnri

As it has already been mentioned vowel reduction often results in regular consonant clusters like [tr], [fr], [pl], [kl] typical for the English sound system. Cf. tram, try, tree and interesting, aft(e)r all; please, play and p(o)litical; clay, cloud, circle and collective; friend, from and diff(e)rence.

Alongside with regular clusters in informal careless speech we find phonetic facts

which seem impossible for the English pronunciations namely consonant sequences [tsn], [tsk], [tsp] and others.

it's not exact its 'nɒt ig'zækt ts 'nɒt ig'zækt

it's close to its 'klзus tə ts 'klзus tə

These sequences never occur in speech where the words are uttered clearly and explicitly but in the stream of informal speech in the least prominent parts of the utterance. These facts represent the natural process of compression, or simplification which are known in other languages.

We cannot deny that every actual sound realization is a unique and individual ideophone. Apart from the distinctive, contextual and stylistic features it differs in the timbre and personal voice qualitiesof every speaker which make his speech recognizable though we may not see the speaker but only hear him over the radio or in a telephone talk. Thus the sound realizations of phonemes are marked by personal features in addition to distinctive, contextual and stylistic. So, a phoneme, an allophone, a variant and a phone form a kind of hierarchy of phonetic units in discourse.

The degree of formality or in other words the character of relationship between participants of the discourse proves to be most significant in the stylistic modifications of sounds.