Phonetic & Phonology Assignment

Aspect of Connected Speech - Song Phonemic Transcription

Song Title: I Will Survive by Cake

Created by:
Ade Kurniawan
Jordy Satria W
M. Rofi Ulwan

Department of English Literature

Faculty of Humanities
University of Indonesia
2015

Aspect of Connected Speech

I Will Survive Cake
1. Rhythm
The notion of rhythm involves some noticeable event happening at regular interval
of time; one can detect the rhythm by a heartbeat, of a flashing light or of a piece of music.

At first I was afraid

I was petrified

I kept thinking I could never live without you by my side

2. Assimilation
A phoneme realised when the word is pronounced in isolation, a phoneme realised
differently as a result of being near some other phoneme belonging to a neighbouring word
we call this difference an instance of assimilation.

I kept thinking I could never live without you by my side / kpt IkI
kd nv lIv wIat ju: b m sId/ kpt Ikn kd nv lIv
wiat ju: b m sd

3. Elision
The nature of elision may be stated quite simply; under certain circumstances
sounds disappear.

I was petrified / wz ptrIfd / / wz p t Ifd/

I kept thinking I could never live without you by my side / kpt IkI
kd nv lIv wIat ju: b m sd / / kpt IkI kd nv lIv
wiat b m sd/

But I spent so many nights just thinking how you have done me wrong /bt
spnt s mni ntz dst k ha ju hav dn mi r/ /bt
spnt s mni ntz dst k ha juv dn mi r/

And so you are back from outer space /nd s ju bak frm at spes/
/nd s j bak frm at spes/

I should have changed my freaking lock / d hav tend m frik lk/

/ .dv tend m frik lk/

I would have made you leave your key / wd hv med ju liv j ki/
/a w.dv med ju liv j ki/

If I would have known for just one second /f wd hv nn f dst wn

sek.nd/ /f w.dv nn f dst wn sek.nd/

You are not welcome anymore / ju: nt welkm e.ni.m/ /ju: nt

welkm e.ni.m

Were not you the one who tried to break me with desire? /w nt ju wn
hu trd t brek mi w d.z/ /wnt ju wn hu trd t brek
mi w d.z/

Did you think I would crumble? /dd ju: k wd krm.bl / /dd j

k wd krm.bl /

Did you think I would lay down and die? /dd ju: k wd le dan nd
d/ /dd j k wd le dan nd d/

4. Linking
All words will be separate units placed next to each other in sequence; in real
connected speech, however, we link words together in a number of ways.