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Unit 5

Segment Dynamics: Aspects of Connected Speech

AI 5.1. Allophonic variation of vowels

Unit 5 – Exercise 1

Allophonic variation of vowels. Listen first, and then repeat the following words, paying attention to the realization of the vowels:

	normal length	clipping	lengthening	extra length
1.	card	cart		car
2.	played	plate		play
3.	feel	feet		fee
4.	bat		bad	bay
5.	pit		pin	pie

AI 5.2. Aspiration of voiceless plosives

Unit 5 – Exercise 2

Notice the different degrees of aspiration of the voiceless plosives. Listen and repeat.

1.	pend	depend	spend
2.	tend	intend	stem
3.	claim	acclaim	slain
4.	peal	appeal	spell
5.	tail	retail	steal
6.	close	enclose	scope

AI 5.3. Assimilation

Unit 5 – Exercise 3

Assimilation. The following words are pronounced slowly first, and then with assimilation. Listen and repeat both forms.

1. white paper	2. stand by	3. bath sats	4. gold plate	5. in question
6. seven pots	7. that ghost	8. in gear	9. newspaper	10. good cook
11. in May	12. of course	13. first class	14. green beans	15. give to
16. might out	17. nice shells	18. would you?	19. when´s yours?	20. Great Britain
21.best man	22. set by	23. bad guy	24. let you	25. rose shears

AI 5.4. Elision

Unit 5 – Exercise 5

Elision. The following words are pronounced slowly first, and then with elision of some sounds. Listen and repeat both forms.

1. stand here	2. I don´t know	3. next please	4. postman	5. stand here
6. stand aside	7. picked one	8. asked him	9. picked two	10. give me one
11. looked horrible	12. but came	13. lost another	14. wouldn´t answer	15. add one
16. clothes	17. can´t hurry	18. want to drink	19. old school	20. one of them

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