3) Double assimilation
treaty, trick, trmble, transport, travel, trustworthy, truth, trace, trial, actress, portrait, attribute;
dream, drip, drank, dread, draft, drop, draw, drug, drew, drive, drove, drapery, drought, hundred, bedroom, dramatize, dressing-down, drawing-room
| drip – trip drill – trill dress – tress drench – trench dread – tread | drunk – trunk drug – truck drudge – trudge dry – try drive – tribe | dray – tray drain – train children – central hundred – hatred husbandry – pleasantry |
| could risk – couldn’t risk had written – hadn’t written | could read – couldn’t read had risen – hadn’t risen |
isn’t right, didn’t write, couldn’t read;
a great risk, a state religion, polished rice, complete rest, ancient ruins, best regards;
could read, would rather, had written, should rest, wild roses, a gold rush, hard rock, a sound reason, a rented room, a speed record, a diamond ring, detailed research, profound respect;
| a | secret | report; | a | cold | reception; | a(n) | light | rain; |
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| detailed |
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| acid |
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| troubled | relations; | a(n) | excellent | reputation; | a(n) | sound | reason |
| intimate |
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4) alveolar flapped variant of [r]
three, thrash, threw, thrust, threaten, threshold, bathroom, teethridge, death rate, birth rate, both roads.
with rain, with respect, with red roses, a smooth road, smooth reading, to breathe rapidly
- 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