PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGY – REVISION

PART 1: Questions

1. What is assimilation and types of assimilation? Give examples.

2. What is elision? Give examples.

3What is linking? Give examples.

4. What is stress and what are different types of stress? Give examples.

5. What are the strong forms and weak forms of functional words? Give examples.

PART 2: Exercises

I. Give the phonetic transcription and explain the changes if there are any:

1. This sharp pen is mine, and that pen is yours.

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2. Ten boys met and said good morning.

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3. That pen, that men, that boy, that cup, that girl

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4. Good boy, good chip, good places, ten cars, this shop, this year, has she?

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5. Ten pens, ten boys, ten men, ten cups, ten girls

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6. You were supposed to live.

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7. What you need, hot mushroom, that kid, last year.

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8. Could you help me? Would you work? She had university students.

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9. What you need is a good job. You told me that you had your homework done.

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10. Could you open the window please? I have to go. I used to live near you.
II. Each of the following examples contains one or more of the words which often have weak forms. Transcribe
the examples phonetically, showing the stressed syllables and the weak/strong forms of those words:

1. They came to the door. There were two of them

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2. What are you surprised at? She is as old as the hill.

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3. She has an uncle and a cousin I shall be angry.

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4. Who will meet him at the airport? I will.

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5. What is her phone number? What does that matter?

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6. I would like some tea. Well, make some.

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7. What has John come for? For his saw that you borrowed.

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8. What can I do? More than I can.

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9. He was pleased, wasn't he? Of course, he was.

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10. When am I going to get it? I am not sure.

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11. I have taken it from the shelf. Yes, I thought you had.

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12. They had already read it. But so had I.

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