tailieunhanh - Gimson's pronunciation of english part 9

Gimson's pronunciation of english part 9. Bài tập luyện ngữ pháp tiếng anh cho mọi người, đây là tài liệu hay và hữu ích có thể giúp các bạn có thể nắm vững được các ngữ pháp tiếng anh cụ thể. | 90 The Sounds of English ao pronounced oo so load lord and loud bud . a remains unfronted as a as it was in older RP. Among the consonants the most obvious characteristics are the absence of 0 0 they are replaced by t d . thin then as tin den . The clusters including when derived from Or may be replaced by . cheese and trees both as and draw and jaw both as dp . h 3 v arc also absent h is dropped as in many British accents 5 is replaced by or less commonly by and v may be replaced by fbl or occasionally w . river jib e . Conso-nantal clusters are often reduced in basitectal Caribbean the most noticeable being the dropping of final t d including when they are past tense markers so that I kiss the lady and I kissed the lady sound the same as indeed they sometime do In RP see 2 . The pronunciation of r post-vocalically is variable in the Caribbean though a majority of speakers probably follow RP in being. non-rhotic some particularly Jamaicans may be semi-rhotic . r is present word-flnally in hear but not preconsonan tally In weird . Additionally there are some allophonic preferences notably 1 being always a clear I and the palatal-ization of before front vowels e g. king ciij and begin bejin . The English Vowels The Distinctive Vowels There are a large number of vowel sounds either relatively pure or clearly gliding in nature in most first language accents of English. The contrasts are established by the commutations possible in scries such as those shown in Table 2. to heed fed bead pea hl hid fill bid except M head fell bed had bad a hard bard par 0 hod bod b hoard fall board paw 0 hood full u who d fool booed pooh A bud heard furl bird purr bl accept ei fail bayed pay _bu au7 latli hide file bide pie hoed foil foal buoyed bode PO 7ia7 p-fc how d foul bowed beard pow peer o. haired bared pair poor able 2 r. . r JQMs in . i estoMihcd by commutation 92 Tif Soundi ofEnglub A general phonetic assessment of the qualities of