Description

In this episode, we will review 4 major units: Adjustments, Stress, Prominence and Intonation. I hope you find it useful!

I leave here some information that is important for today's episode:

ADJUSTMENTS:

Yuxtapositional assimilation:

TDN → PBM (before PBM)

TDN → KGŋ (before KGŋ)

SZ → ʃʒ (before tʃ, dʒ and ʃ) and also /j/ in double adjustment turns into ʃ or ʒ

Coalescent assimilation:

T + J = tʃ      (for example, eat your snack)

D + J = dʒ (for example, did you)

S + J =  ʃ

Z + J =  ʒ

Elision: Inside/word boundaries and consonant sounds at inside and word boundaries → C + V + C

1. When /ə/, /ʊ/ and /ɪ/ are preceded or followed by /l,r,n/
2. When /m,n,ŋ/ + /tən/,/dən/ we tend to retain the vowel. Eg → /lʌndən/
3. /tn/, /tnC/*,/-dnt/,/ʃnC/, /ʃn/,/ʒn/,/pl/, /kl/, /fl/, /dl/, /tl/, /ʃl/ , /zl/

*The C in capital letters means "consonant".

In order to check examples of STRESS, PROMINENCE and INTONATION, you can access to the following DOC: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kXaPaIQGKq2jZ7ap5e6uC2mJHwX1Yc7XmJ-reh8_4_A/edit?usp=sharing