Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Teaching Pronunciation
- Aspects of Connected Speech
- Universidad iexpro Master's Degree in
English Teaching
- María del Carmen Laborde Aguirre
- References
- Hockly, N. Madrid, D. Teaching Pronuciation.
IEXPRO Antology. Mexico, Chiapas. 2010
- https://www.eslbase.com/tefl-a-z/connected-speech
- https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/rhythm
- Assimilation
- A phoneme is realised
differently as a result of being
near to some other phoneme.
- It takes place where ther is a
final consonant and an initial
consonant
- /t/, /p/
- That person
- [daep person]
- /t/, /g/
- Quite good
- [kwaIk gud]
- /s/ /ch/
- This shoe
- [dIsh shU:]
- /n/ /m/
- Green bottles
- [gri:m botls]
- a phoneme (sound) in one word causes a
change in a sound in a neighbouring word
- Elision
- In some circumstances
a phoneme may be
realised as zero
- Some words are pronounced
with a silent consonant
- doubt
- [daut]
- Scirpts
- [Scrips]
- potato
- [p'tato]
- syllabic "n"
- tonight
- [t'naIt]
- the loss of a phoneme, most commonly
the last phoneme of a word, and most
commonly the /t/ and /d/ sounds
- Linking
- Juncture. The use of some
phonemes to link
words
- Sometimes /r/ may be silent
- Four = [fou]
- If the following word starts with a
vowel, then /r/ must be pronounced
- four eagles =
[four iglz]
- Rhythm
- English is a "stress-timed" language
- Spanish is a
"syllable timed"
language
- English is more rhythmical
than other languages
- Some syllables are stressed
- Other Syllables are
considered 'weak'
- The 'foot' theory
- The stressesin sentences tend
to occur on the words that
convey significant information.