Phonetics and English Pronunciation Course: 14th Session

ANDRÉS FELIPE MURILLO

RESTREPO
• Video: assimilation
• Activity: Bamboozle
• The syllable review:
• Homework:
• Coarticulation effects.
• Workshop
• Next class
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 Review
• A syllable is a combination of a vowel or vowel-like sound and a
consonant or it can be just a vowel. The most common syllable in
English is CV

Open Closed
syllable /ˈmi/ /ˈʌp/ Syllable
 Homework
• Describe the syllables in the following words:
• Bed
• On
• Car
• Table
• Pencil
• Cellphone
• Computer
• Extra
Answers

c c
Consonant Clusters

Phonotactis
Language specific
Extra

Strong?
Explain?
 Coarticulation effects
Assimilation Elision
When two sound segments occur in sequence The process of not pronouncing a sound segment that
and some aspect of one segment is might be present in the deliberately careful
taken or “copied” by the other, the process is pronunciation of a word in isolation.
known as assimilation Coda position
[hæftəɡoʊ] [ðəblækæt] [dɪdʒu]
[wʊdʒu][wədʒu]

[wiæstəm]
[kæbnət]
Nasalization: when a vowel sound is [kæmrə]
followed by a consonant nasal and
he vowel becomes nasalized. [prɪznər]
[aɪkəŋɡoʊ] [spoʊz]
[ju ənmi].
Assimilation: /t/ + /j/ = / tʃ/ Elision: C /t/ C
 Let’s practice- Group work
Assimilation and elision
In each of the following sentences there’s an example of coarticulation effects. Write down the
phonemic transcription taking into account actual speech.

• Can I have a sheet of white paper please?

• We talked to him yesterday.
• I hate people who swear a lot.
• Tim thinks he's got a split personality.
• I’m not interested in that.
• Pablo Picasso was a great painter.
• You must talk to him.
• My mate plays guitar in a band.
• This new version is quite popular.
Presentation: British English
 Next class
• Presentation:
• Workshop.
• Reading about prosodic features.