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COURSE ASSIGNMENT
Course: Phonetics and Phonology
Course Code: 2111411
Class Code: 420300269312
Group: 312C
Group Members and Signatures:
Assimilation
Example: meet people: /miːt ˈpiː.pəl/
Assimilation: /miːp ˈpiː.pəl/
Cf changes to become like Ci , so the assimilation is called regressive, the
phoneme that comes first is affected by the one that comes after it. The
final consonant in ‘meet’ is alveolar. In rapid, casual speech the t will
become p before a bilabial consonant.
Elison
Example: Combine: /kəmˈbaɪn/
Elison: /kmˈbaɪn/
In connected speech /ə/ in the first syllable can easily disappear because the
/k/ is a plosive that takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable.
Linking:
Example: Never again: /ˈnev.ər əˈɡen/
The word after ‘never’ begins with a vowel sound. In this case, the ‘r’ is
pronounced. This is called a ‘linking /r/’ and it helps to make the words
flow together more smoothly in natural speech.
Kinds of
Word Transcription Explain
word
Final syllable
Enter is weak, so the
/=ent9/
(v) first syllable is
stressed
The first
syllable is
Simple Two- Hollow stressed
words syllable /=h4l!/
(adj) because the
final syllable
contains “!”
Stress falls on
Money
/=m6ni/ the first
(n)
syllable
The final
syllable is
Entertain (v) /-ent9=t$n/ strong, so it
received
primary stress
The first
Three-
syllable is
syllable
Potato weak, so the
/p9=t$t!/
(n) stress comes
on the next
syllable
Stress falls on
Opportune
/=4p9tjUn/ the first
(adj)
syllable
Complex
Disconnect The prefix
words /-d1sk9=nekt/
(v) does not affect
the position of
Co-founder the stress,
/k! =f~nd9/
(n) words have
Prefixes
same rules as
those for
Bilingual polysyllabic
/b#=l17gw9l/
(adj) words without
prefixes.
Picturesque
Suffixes /-p1kT9r=esk/
(adj)
carrying Stress will
the primary come on the
stress suffix
themselves Examinee
/1g-z`m1=nI/
(n)
Suffixes Word stress
Wonderful
that do not /=w6nd9f9l/ does not
(adj)
affect change when
stress /=kl`s1f#/ adding
Classify
placement suffixes
(v)
Happiness
/h`pin9s/
(n)
When adding
Suffixes
Distinguish suffixes, the
that /d1=st1n7gw1S/
(v) stress come
influence
the syllable
stress in
before that
the stem
suffix
Confidential
/-k4nf1=denS9l/
(adj)
Washing
/=w4S17m9-SIn/
machine (n)
Com
pounds
Second-class
/-sek9nd=klAs/
(adj)
Primary stress
is on the final
Other Understand word, the first
/-6nd9=st`nd/
compounds (v) word takes
secondary
Bad-tempered stress
/-b`d=temp9d/
(adj)
When
Export (n) /=ekspOt/
changing the
Word-class pairs
stress, the
Export (v) /1k=spOt/
word part of
Record (adj) /=rekOd/
8. Put the sentence stress marks and divide the given sentence up into
feet, using a dotted vertical line as a boundary symbol.
1 2 3 4 5 6
The po =lice =came and =asked her a =lot of =questions
Rise tune:
Are you going to take the /job
Invitations to continue
Fall tune:
Close the door \quickly
Finality
Fall-rise tune:
A: I have heard that she is a kind woman
B: \/ Yes
Response with reservations
Rise-fall tune:
A: I have heard that he is a kind man
B: /\ Yes
Convey strong feelings of approval or surprise
Level tune
A: Can I go -now
B: -Yes
A feels uninteresting and is complaining about having to go to a
formal wedding. Thus, B feels bored when A said that.