SPHHRNG 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Elision, Vowel Reduction, Coarticulation
4 Oct 2016
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Words are pronounced clearly as single, isolated items. The words are transcribed and presented as isolated items. An utterance that is formed by joining two or more words together. Words can change in context when compared to citation forms. Example: i caught him : citation form: /ai k t him, connected speech: /aik t m/ Assimilation (coarticulation: direction (regressive, progressive, contiguous/non-contiguous (distant, conditioning segment, changed segment. Assimilation: an affected/changed phoneme takes on phonetic features of a neighboring phoneme: example: that guy , / t a / / k a , the alveolar /t/ becomes velar /k/ from influence of velar / /. Progressive assimilation: affected phoneme follows conditioning phoneme: left-to-right assimilation, preservative assimilation, examples: looked /l kd/ /l kt/ (contagious, time /ta m/ /ta n/ (non-contagious/distant) Regressive assimilation: changed phoneme precedes conditioning phoneme: right-to-left assimilation, anticipatory assimilation, examples: tin can, could you /k d ju/ /k d u/ Elision: elimination or deletion of a phoneme: examples:
