Sound Drills.

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• 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