1. Practice the following words and phrases observing assimilation in the consonant clusters with [w]
a) Pay attention to different degrees of devoicing of [w]
| win – twin wig – twig weed – tweed weak – tweak which – twitch wine – twine went to – twenty why so – twice | wit – quit ween – queen west – quest white – quite wire – choir wake – quake water – quarter waiter – equator | wing – swing weed – Swede weep – sweep well – swell wash – swash warm – swarm whine – swine ware – sware | wart – thwart ward – outward, backward worm – bookworm wise – likewise word – crossword wear – footwear work – housework water – sweet-water |
b)
| twin twist twinkle twelve twenty twaddle twice twilight nitwit between knitwear footwear software leftward outward trustworthy swift-winged sweet-water | queen quick quiete choir question quarter quarrel quality quantity awkward request require colloquial quickway earthquake bookworm backward likewise | sweet swim switch swing sweat swirl swam swat swarm sway swine swear sweater swallow persuade crossword housework expressway |
| dwell dwelling dwindle dwarf headway goodwill bindweed groundwork woodwork midwinter breadwinner hardware Edward | Gwen Gwendolen penguin sanguine languid languish language linguistic distinguish | thwack thwart always railway upward subway onward brainwave someone somewhat somewhere homework dishwasher Frenchwoman |
c)
It will, it won’t, this one, at once, those ones, front wheels, to swim well, wild mind, the last word, a lone wolf, a long way, superb woman, a brief walk, a cold war, brain-washing, a deep well, a stone wall, an egg whisk, barbed wire, floral wallpaper, mineral water, sweet wine, extreme west, road works, cotton wool, a formal warning, a living wage, a large wardrobe, French windows, the Ancient world, to bribe workers, to bring water.
- Aspiration. Degrees of Aspiration.
- Sound Drills.
- 1. Practise different degrees of aspiration in the following words:
- In a department store
- Leisure
- Loss of Plosion.
- Sound Drills.
- 3. Practise the following fragments of connected speech focusing on loss of plosion.
- Nasal Plosion.
- Sound Drills.
- Duty of the student
- Lateral Plosion
- Sound Drills
- 1. Pronounce the following words and phrases observing lateral plosion.
- 2. Practise lateral plosion in connected speech.
- Fricative Plosion.
- 1. Pronounce the following words and phrases observing close coarticulation of plosive and fricative consonants.
- 2. Practise fricative plosion in connected speech.
- To a False Friend
- Making a Cake
- Alveolar consonants before [0, 8].
- Sound Drills
- 1. Practice the following words and phrases. Be sure to make the sounds [t, d, n, l, s, z] dental before [0] and [8]
- 2. Practise the clusters of alveolar consonants preceding [0, 8] in connected speech.
- Boiled Eggs
- Sonants
- General Remarks
- 1. Modifications of the length of English sonants.
- 2. The syllabic function of the sonants in English
- 3. Devoicing of the sonants.
- Consonant sounds that link words.
- Linking [r]
- Consonantal glides [w] and [j]
- Sound Drills.
- 1. Practise the linking [r], [w] and [j] at the junction of words. Be sure to make the glides [w] and [j] sound very short.
- 2. Practise linking at word-boundaries in connected speech.
- Rain dying out
- Combinations of consonants with [w]
- Sound Drills.
- 1. Practice the following words and phrases observing assimilation in the consonant clusters with [w]
- 2. Practise consonant clusters with [w] in connected speech.
- Consonant clusters with [r]
- Sound Drills.
- 1. Practice the following words and phrases observing assimilation in the consonant clusters with [r]
- 1) Complete devoicing of [r]
- 2) Partial devoicing of [r]
- 3) Double assimilation
- 2. Practise consonant clusters with [r] in connected speech.
- Airport announcements.
- Travelling by train.
- Absence of assimilation in some consonant clusters.
- No assimilation according to the place or manner of articulation of English consonants
- No assimilation according to the work of the vocal cords
- Sound Drills.
- 2. Practise the difficult consonant clusters in the following contexts. Observe absence of assimilation.
- Monday’s child
- The House That Jack Built
- A vacant seat