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Teaching Pronunciation
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5 Aspects of connected speech
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Teaching Pronunciation
Aspects of Connected Speech
Universidad iexpro Master's Degree in English Teaching
María del Carmen Laborde Aguirre
References
Hockly, N. Madrid, D. Teaching Pronuciation. IEXPRO Antology. Mexico, Chiapas. 2010
https://www.eslbase.com/tefl-a-z/connected-speech
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/rhythm
Assimilation
A phoneme is realised differently as a result of being near to some other phoneme.
It takes place where ther is a final consonant and an initial consonant
/t/, /p/
That person
[daep person]
/t/, /g/
Quite good
[kwaIk gud]
/s/ /ch/
This shoe
[dIsh shU:]
/n/ /m/
Green bottles
[gri:m botls]
a phoneme (sound) in one word causes a change in a sound in a neighbouring word
Elision
In some circumstances a phoneme may be realised as zero
Some words are pronounced with a silent consonant
doubt
[daut]
Scirpts
[Scrips]
potato
[p'tato]
syllabic "n"
tonight
[t'naIt]
the loss of a phoneme, most commonly the last phoneme of a word, and most commonly the /t/ and /d/ sounds
Linking
Juncture. The use of some phonemes to link words
Sometimes /r/ may be silent
Four = [fou]
If the following word starts with a vowel, then /r/ must be pronounced
four eagles = [four iglz]
Rhythm
English is a "stress-timed" language
Spanish is a "syllable timed" language
English is more rhythmical than other languages
Some syllables are stressed
Other Syllables are considered 'weak'
The 'foot' theory
The stressesin sentences tend to occur on the words that convey significant information.
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