Fonetika angličtiny
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In this exercise you will decide whether the given vowel is full (e.g., /ʊ e ɒ iː əʊ/) or reduced (/ə/). Sometimes there are two pronunciation variants, so it can be both.
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This week you can look at your treatment of voicing assimilation (= changes between fortis and lenis categories). In English, you shouldn’t assimilate voicing, especially from fortis to lenis.
1) Find words that begin with a lenis sound. Do you incorrectly assimilate voicing? E.g., do you say /naɪz bɔɪ/ instead of /naɪs bɔɪ/?
2) Look at some polymorphemic words like past tenses, 3rd person verbs, the plural. Do you pronounce the lenis variants (/z/ /d/) after non-fortis sounds? Or do you incorrectly assimilate it to fortis? (E.g., you say /bɔɪs/ insted of /bɔɪz/)