Connected Speech Overview Pronunciation Exercises Phonics - 84638
Connected Speech Overview Pronunciation Exercises Phonics - 84638
Connected Speech Overview Pronunciation Exercises Phonics - 84638
Patient: Doctor, Doctor, I’ve got two theik, a near rake, Now, try to write it out as it should be written:
sore rise, bruise darms a stummer cake and I far tall
the time.
When you listen to native speakers speaking naturally, it sounds completely different to what you see when
those same words are written down. This is known as connected speech.
Watch the following introduction to connected speech and choose the correct option below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VnSAr9No6k
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPCKHtQiP-
4&list=PLAMCCOulyN88fWus7Of-ysEOr0r29Iyrs and answer the questions:
Elision – losing a sound in the middle of a consonant cluster, within a single word or between a few words,
especially the /t/ and /d/ sounds at the end of a word and /h/ at the beginning of a word.
Catenation – when the final letter of a word is joined to the first vowel in the next word.
e.g. an apple = a napple old age = ol dage pick it up = pi ki tup what is it – wo ti zit
Intrusion – an extra sound is included between words, usually between vowels and vowel like sounds.
Assimilation – when a phoneme in one word changes the sound of a phoneme in another word.
e.g. ten boys = tem boys last year = last chear Hyde Park – Hybe Park did you = did jou
Watch this short clip from Forrest Gump and try to complete the
dialogue.
Watch again and listen to how the words change. Write how they words
sound as they change.
Can you find examples of the above features of connected speech in the dialogue?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBEEZwMj1AA
Which features of connected speech might you use in the following sentences? Indicate weak
forms and any other feature that might be appropriate. Then write the sentence how you
would pronounce it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzkzA77RMzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7VREyOLPz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdRCfsr8uDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZq_tskEeqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaCRpnW8Q2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIEg9qBvMBc
Here is a website where you can type in words and sentences, listen to how they’re pronounced and
practice. Try recording yourself and compare it to what you hear.
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Student A
Forrest: Those must be comfortable shoes. I bet you can walk all day in _______
_____ ______ and not feel a thing. I wish I had shoes like that.
Forrest: Mama always said ‘there’s an awful lot you can tell _______ a person by
their shoes’, where ______ ______, where they been. I’ve worn ______ ___
shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard, I can remember my first pair of shoes.
Mama said they’d take me ___________.
Student B
Forrest: Those ______ ____ ________ shoes. I bet you can walk all day in
shoes like that and not feel a thing. I wish I had shoes like that.
Forrest: Mama always said ‘there’s an awful lot you can tell about a person _____
their shoes, where they goin’, where _____ ______. I’ve worn lots of shoes. I bet
if I think about it real hard, I can remember my first pair of shoes. Mama said
_______ ______ ____ anywhere.