Connected Speech & Phonemic Transcription (IPA) Lecture A3 Connected Speech & Phonemic Transcription (IPA)

Pay close attention… To the terms used in bold font.

Stress A word with more than one syllable is called a polysyllable. Citation form? How to write a word to help show pronunciation and stress. We use the ‘ symbol to as a citation form for stress. English words that are polysyllabic will have one strong stress. Try this: manage, final, finality, resolute, resolution, electric, electricity

Answers… manage, final, finality, resolute, resolution, electric, electricity What patterns do you notice?

Word stress Stress in isolated words is termed word stress. In connected speech sentence stress. Content words… Function (also referred to as grammar) words…

Strong, weak and contracted forms Try this: Megan had decided to fetch them from the hospital. Which words are stressed? Which are unstressed? Unstressed (or barely stressed) words are considered a weak form. Stressed strong form

Contracted forms Content + function words when contracted = contracted form Contracted forms are often stressed (strong form) even though they contain a function word. Do not Don’t Do not touch the monkey. Don’t touch the monkey. Contracted forms are linked to spoken speech and informal English.

Note:

Note:

Essential weak forms

Contracted…

Try this:

Phonemic transcription For a more hands-on look at the rest of the textbook chapter, see the prezi and other links under Lecture A3 on the course homepage.