Transcribing Connected Speech

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Section 9

• Transcribing Connected Speech

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Principles

• Each phonological phrase is a unit of connected
  speech that ends with a pause. Often in writing,
  pauses (points of juncture) are indicated by
  punctuation.
• The word that receives primary stress will be
  semantically important.
• All other content words receive secondary
  stress.

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Vowel reduction

• When /u/ occurs before another vowel, liquid or
  glide, it is often reduced to /U/ and when /U/
  occurs before a glide or liquid, it may reduce to
  /_at_/ /ju/, /jU/, or /j_at_/ or /tu/, /tU/, and /t_at_/
• HUH?

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Contrastive stress drills

• Who did you invite to the party?
• Who did you invite to the party?
• Who did you invite to the party?
• Who did you invite to the party?

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Proverbs

• It is only the people with push who have pull.
• Confessions may be good for the soul, but they
  are bad for the reputation.

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Phonological phrases

• About an hour
• Over the hill
• Scared to death

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Idiomatic expressions

• Duel over idioms at the board