30 April - 6 May
Section outline
-
-
Handout - stress in complex words. Read corresponding chapters in Peter Roach if you missed the lecture.
-
Read a passage from Volín's IPA-Based Transcription... and do the exercises reɡardinɡ dark L (pp. 72-73).
-
Transcription contributes to 50% of the mark from the final test. Practise it now! Finish this exercice within a week - you will find the solution below.
"I come looking for a job, but I get no offers. I do declare there are times when I am very lonesome."
- Transcribe the phonemes in connected speech (including stresses and linking). Use vowel reduction whenever appropriate.
- Add allophones for aspiration, devoicing, pre-fortis shortening, dark L.
-
-
Analyse your pronunciation in terms of stress placement. Which syllable do you stress? Is it so also in native English? What about permitted stress shifts of the type "ˈafternoon ˈtea"?
-