assimilation

Question 1

What is assimilation?

Answer 1

It’s when a particular phoneme is realised differently because of being near another speech sound.

Question 2

When /t/ is before / m / / b / or / p / what does it change to?

Answer 2

/p/

Question 3

What are speech sound also known as?

Answer 3

Phonemes

Question 4

Many Brown Potatoes acronym for what, what does it affect?

Answer 4

/m/b/p/= /t/d/n/

Question 5

Kinder Giants acronym for what what does it affect?

Answer 5

k/g/=/t/d/n

Question 6

ʃhit jam acronym for what what does it affect?

Answer 6

/ʃ/ or / j /=/s/z/

Question 7

What are phonemes?

Answer 7

Speech sounds

Question 8

When /d/ is before / m / / b / or / p / what does it change to?

Answer 8

/b/

Question 9

When/ n/ is before / m / / b / or / p / what does it change to?

Answer 9

/m/

Question 10

When /t/ is before / k / or /g/ what does it change to?

Answer 10

k

Question 11

When /d/ is before / k / or /g/ what does it change to?

Answer 11

/g/

Question 12

When /n/ is before / k / or /g/ what does it change to?

Answer 12

/ŋ/

Question 13

When /s/ is before /ʃ/ or / j / what does it change to?

Answer 13

/ʃ/

Question 14

When /z/ is before / ʃ / or / j / what does it change to?

Answer 14

/ʒ/

Question 15

When / /θ// is before / s /what does it change to?

Answer 15

/s/

Question 16

When the ‘_s suffix is after a voiceless consonant it’s pronounced as …

Answer 16

/s/ duck/s/

Question 17

When the ‘_s suffix is after a voiced consonant it’s pronounced as ….

Answer 17

/z/ hen/z/

Question 18

What’s the difference in the way these words are pronounced and written using IPA? Loose/Lose….

Answer 18

One uses voiceless alveolar fricative and the other is voiced alveolar fricative

Question 19

How to work out whether a word is strong/weak form?

Answer 19

Distribution: when word is placed in final sentence position
When a weak form is:
• being contrasted with another word
• given stress for emphasis
• being quoted
• begins with /h/loses that phoneme unless it’s in the initial position with the sentence
Coordinated use of PROPs (to and from /tu: frɒm)

Question 20

Words that have both Content/function words belong to which word class?

Answer 20

Function-grammer

Question 21

What word classes can be strong and weak formed?

Answer 21

AUX V, PREPS,CONJS

Question 22

What are the main weak formed PREPS?

Answer 22

a/an, and, but,
his (when used before a noun), her,
the, that(when used in a relative clause), than,
your (hardly used at the end

Question 23

Weak from of the?

Answer 23

CONSON=ðə

VOWEL=ðɪ

Question 24

Weak form of a/an?

Answer 24

CONSON=ə

VOWEL=ən

Question 25

Weak form of and?

Answer 25

ən | n̩( sometimes after t,d,s,z, ʃ)

Question 26

Weak form of but?

Answer 26

bət

Question 27

Weak form of that?

Answer 27

ðət (only weak when used in relative clause)

Question 28

Strong form of that?

Answer 28

ðæt (if used to function as a demonstratives)

Question 29

Weak form of than?

Answer 29

ðən

Question 30

Weak form of his?

Answer 30

ɪz (when used before a Noun)

Question 31

Strong form of his?

Answer 31

hɪz( used at the initial or final position for emphasis)

Question 32

Weak form of her?

Answer 32

CONSON=ə VOWEL=ər (when used in a possessive sense, before noun or at the end of the sentence)

Question 33

What are the main PRONS used in weak form:

Answer 33

She, he, him, her (add /h/ phoneme if used in sentence initial position), them, us, we, you . Use weak vowels to match with weak form

Question 34

Strong vowels include?

Answer 34

U: a: i:

Question 35

Weak form of she?

Answer 35

ʃi

Question 36

Weak form of he?

Answer 36

hi

Question 37

Weak form of you?

Answer 37

ju

Question 38

Weak form of him?

Answer 38

ɪm

Question 39

Weak form of her?

Answer 39

(h)ə

Question 40

Weak form of them?

Answer 40

ðəm

Question 41

Weak form of us?

Answer 41

əs

Question 42

What PROPs and other function words are also affected my strong/weak forms?

Answer 42

At, for, from, of, to, as, some, there

Question 43

Weak form of at?

Answer 43

ət

Question 44

Weak form of for?

Answer 44

CONSON:fə VOWEL:fər FWP: fɔː

Question 45

Weak form of from?

Answer 45

frəm

Question 46

Weak form of of?

Answer 46

əv

Question 47

Weak form of to?

Answer 47

CONSON:tə VOWEL:tu FWP: tu/tu:

Question 48

Weak form of as?

Answer 48

əz

Question 49

Weak form of some?

Answer 49

səm=If used before uncountable N (unspecified amount or before plural N)

Question 50

weak form of there?

Answer 50

CONSON: ðə VOWEL: ðər FWP: ðə

Question 51

Strong form of at?

Answer 51

=occurs FWP | æt

Question 52

Strong form of for?

Answer 52

=occurs FWP | fɔː

Question 53

Strong form of from?

Answer 53

frɒm

Question 54

Strong form of of?

Answer 54

ɒv

Question 55

Strong form of to?

Answer 55

tuː/ tu

Question 56

Strong form of as?

Answer 56

æz | =occurs FWP

Question 57

Strong form of some?

Answer 57

=occurs before a countable N and in FWP | sʌm

Question 58

Strong form of there and why would it be strong?

Answer 58

=used for demonstrative function CONSON=ðeə VOWEL=ðeər FWP=ðeə

Question 59

If AUX Verb used in conjuction with FULL Verb what form are they in?

Answer 59

Weak

Question 60

AUX VERBS become___________ when they are used in negative form?

Answer 60

Strong form…. They have negative form-NOT added

Question 61

What can change in negative AUX VERBS compared to their non-negative forms?

Answer 61

They may have different vowels

Question 62

List some AUX VERBS affected by weak and strong forms.

Answer 62

Can/could, have/has/had, shall/should, must, do/does, am/are/was/were

Question 63

What does FWP stand for?

Answer 63

Final word position/last thing in the sentence

Question 64

Weak form of can/could?

Answer 64

FWP=kæn/kʊd

Question 65

Weak form of have/has/had?

Answer 65

(h)əv/(h)əz/(h)əd (with /h/ phoneme if in initial word position start of the sentence) FWP= hæv/ hæs/ hæd

Question 66

Weak form of shall/should?

Answer 66

ʃəl, ʃl/ ʃəd | FWP= ʃæl/ ʃʊd

Question 67

Weak form of must?

Answer 67

CONSON=məs VOWEL=məst FWP=Mʌst if used to form a conclusion

Question 68

Weak form of do/does?

Answer 68

CONSON=/də VOWEL= duː WF: dəz FWP= duː/ dʌz

Question 69

Weak form of am/are/was/were?

Answer 69

``` CONSON= əm/ ə/ wə VOWEL= ər/ wər/wəz FWP= æm/ ɑː /w3:/ /wɒz ```