ESCUELA: NOMBRES ENGLISH PHONOLOGY FECHA : INGLÉS Dra. Carmen Benítez ABRIL – AGOSTO

CHAPTER 9 STRONG AND WEAK SYLLABLES Strong: stressed peak: long vowel, diphthongs, triphthongs short vowel + coda (1 or more C)

Weak: unstressed, lower intensity, dif. quality peak: end of words: ə, i, u, ə + coda, SC (l, m, n, ŋ, r) inside words: ə, i, u, ɪ next syllable begins with consonant 3

“Schwa” Vowel ə  The most occurring vowel in English  Weak: occurs with weak syllables Quality: mid half way between close open central half way betw front back lax art. without much energy 5

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weak form strong form  a ə æ  ar ə ɑ:  o əɒ - əʊ  or əɔ:  e əe  er ə ɜ:  u əʌ  ough əmany  ou əaʊ  ate adj. end əeɪ 6

Close front – Close back Vowels Area of producing: near i: i i: u: ɪ ɪ ʊ near u: u ʊ

Distribution: i  Word f p: “y”, “ey” after 1 or more C.  Morpheme f p: “y”, “ey” + suff beg with V  Prefixes: re, pre, de, before unst vowel.  Suffix: iate, ious 2 syllable words  he, she we, me, be (unstressed)  the preceding a vowel u  you, to, into do  before another vowel within a word

Syllabic consonants l, m, n, ŋ, r syllabic consonants Why? Stand as peak in weak syllables; novel, pencil, action How do you mark it? By placing a ( ˌ) under l, m, n, ŋ, r novel n ɒvl, pencil pensl, action ækʃn

Syllabic l Distribuition: After another consonant (alveolar) -w f p with 1 or more C + “le” With alveolar C prec. little With non-alveolar C. prec. Staple -w f p, words spelt with 1 or more C + “al” “el”`partial, panel 10

Syllabic n Distribuition: Doesn’t occur in IP except in some words. In M or F P: n becomes syllabic after plosive or fricative + ən cotton often open

Syllabic m, ŋ Result from a process of assimilation or elision. Not so common Can be transcribed as ən too ( ˌ) below l, m, n, ŋ, r shows that the C is syllabic, in the case of ŋ ( ˌ) can be placed above the symbol. 12

CHAPTER 10 STRESS IN SIMPLE WORDS Strength used to pronounce a syllable in a word Marked wit ( ˈ ) 2 ways of seen it: 13 PRODUCTION What speakers do to pronounce strong syllables PERCEPTION What characteristics make a sound to be heard as strong

Production: use of energy to produce sound (muscles) subglottal pressure higher Perception: stressed syllables are prominent PROMINENCE characteristic of stressed syllables (factors) length, loudness, pitch and quality 14

Levels of stress Stress is marked with (') high up before the stressed syllable (') primary stress (strong) ( ˌ ) secondary stress (weak) ( ) unstressed (no prominence) ( ∘ ) tertiary stress (very weak) 15

Placement of stress within the word 1-syllable words Basically we take into account: Kind of word:simple or complex isolated 1 syllable word strong The gram. category of the word Number of syllables Phon structure of the syllable. 16

only used with strong syllables  Two-syllable words Verbs: 2nd s, stress 2nd; 2 w, stress 1st; 2nd əʊ, 1st Nouns: 2nd s short v, stress 1st Adjectives: same rules as verbs Adverbs and prepositions (verbs)

 Three- syllable words verbs: f strong, s f f w, s preceding if s f w, preceding w, s 1st Nouns: f əʊ, prec s, s 2nd 2nd and f w, s 1st f s, 2nd weak, s 1st Adjectives: same rule as nouns 18

CHAPTER 11 COMPLEX WORD STRESS COMPLEX WORDS Affixes can: Receive primary stress Do not receive it Influence on the shift of stress 19 COMPLEX: STEM + AFFIX prefix suffix COMPOUND: TWO OR MORE INDEPENDENTS WORDS

Suffixes: at the end of the word. region + al = regional stem + suffix Productive suffixes: the most common and used. Some problems:  Some words seem to have a suffix. regional canal  number of suffixes a word can have interestingly 20

 Suffixes carrying the stress themselves ee, er, ese, ette, esque portuguese p ɔ:tʃə'gi:z  Suffixes that do not affect st. plac able, age, al, en, ful, ing, ish, like, less, ly, ment, ness, ous, fy, wise,y national ' n æʃnl  Suffixes that influence stress in the stem eous, graphy, ial, ic, ion, ious, ty, ive proverb proverbial pr əˈvɜ:biəl 21

Prefixes before the stem Do not work the same as suffixes Do not carry primary stress 22

Compound words Words formed by two ind. words hand-bag typewriter  Most carry stress in the 2nd word 23

Exceptions: Adj. first element and ed at the end bad-'tempered First element is a number three-wheeler Comp. functioning as adverbs North-east Comp. functioning as verbs hand have an adv. As first element down-grade 24

Variable stress  Stress is shifted to another position because:  The influence of other words bad ˈ tempered bad tempered ˈ teacher  Speakers do not agree on stress placement. controversy ' kɒntəvɜsi kɒn ' təvɜsi 25

Word class pairs Identical words with different grammatical function. adj, noun, verb Consist of a preffix + stem Are different because of stress 'æ bstrækt (adj) æ b ' strækt (v) ' ekspɔ:t (n ) eks ' pɔ:t (v) 26

CHAPTER 12 WEAK FORMS Strong and weak forms: same words pronounced in strong and weak form in certain contexts. that ðæt ð ə t function words: auxiliaries, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, etc. 27

Weak forms are pronounced as strong in the following cases: of at the end of a sentence For contrasting information: Give it to him not to her Coordinate use of prepositions The letter said from New York not to New York For emphasis You have to do that 28

There are many forms pronounced only weak in ceratin contexts. the, a an, and, that, his, her, your, she, he, we, you, him, at, him, her, them, us, for, from, of, to, as, some, there, can, have, has, had, shall, should, must, do, does, am, are, was Recomedation: practice a lot. 29

CHAPTER 14 ASPECTS OF CONNECTED SPEECH Our speech is accompanied of some aspects. These aspects are:  Rhythm  Assimilation  Elision  Linking 30

Rhythm Involves noticeable event happening at regular intervals of time. English is stress-timed rhythm.- The times from one stressed syllable to the next will tend to be the same irrespectibly of the number of intervening unstressed syllables. s yllable-timed rhythm: syllables (s or un)tend to occur at regular time- intervals, times shorter or longer depending on the number of ustressed syllables 31

Unit of rhythm: foot Rhythm can vary minimal value arhythmically maximum value very rhytmically 32

Assimilation Process by which a phoneme is realized in differently because of the influence of a neighbouring sound. F C becomes like I C regressive that person ðæt pɜ:sn ðæp pɜ:sn I C becomes like F C progressive Assimilation of voice 33

Differences in place of artic. Alveolar sounds become bilabial or dental plosives (regressive) Differences in manner of artic. Final plosive becomes fricative or nasal (regressive) Differences in voicing devoicing of voiced consonats (regressive) 34

Elision Sounds dissapear under certain circumstances, a phoneme may be realized zero or not realized. acts æks scripts skrɪps looked back lʊk bæk 35

INTONATION Closely related to pitch, helps to convey messages or show different states. Pitch is produced by the vibration of the vocal cords. 36

Levels of pitch  Level _  Falling `  Rising ´ 37

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