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Connected Speech One
Connected Speech One
/aIwent t@th@steiS@n@nbuktu:tikits
I went to the station and booked two tickets
f@mai fa:th@r@nhizbesfren/
for my father and his best friend
There is a tendency for vowels in
unstressed syllables to shift towards
the schwa (central position)
Weak form are commonly
used words
Prepositions
Auxiliary verbs
Conjunctions
Strong form Weak form
Prepositions
to tu: t@
of ov @(v)
as a{z @z
at at @t
Auxiliary verbs
do du: / də/
are a: @(r)*
were w3: w@
a a, ei @*
an @n @n
the thi: th@, thi (before a
vowel)
Weak=unstressed
In the following sentences the underlined words are
stressed and so would be pronounced using the strong
form:
I do like chocolate.
- within words
This can also take place within affricates /tS/ and /dZ/ when
preceded by a consonant, e.g.
/streɪndʒ/deɪ/
Much time
Elision of ‘not’
The phoneme /t/ is a fundamental part of the
negative particle not, the possibility of it being
elided makes the foreign students life more
difficult. Consider the negative of can – if followed
by a consonant the /t/ may easily disappear and
the only difference between the positive and the
negative is a different, longer vowel sound in the
second: