8-5 数字时代的商务英语写作Elision.pdf

Unit 8 Aspects of Connected Speech 8.5 Elision Diagnostic test 1 Listen and mark the sounds that disappear in these words. Example: chocolate → choc(o)late 1) police 6) correct 2) secretary 7) potato 3) perhaps 8) comfortable 4) vegetable 9) I’m afraid so 5) excuse me 10) because Diagnostic test 2 Listen and mark the consonants that disappear. Example: acts →ac(t)s scripts →scrip(t)s 1) textbooks 4) he must be ill 2) next week 5) he asked Paul 3) three-fifths 6) she looked back quickly Basic concepts Elision, also known as deletion or omission, refers to the process where sounds may disappear or are not clearly articulated in certain contexts. next week /neks wi:k/ Elision of Vowels The unstressed vowel /ə/ or /ɪ/ optionally drops out in some polysyllabic words following the strongly stressed syllable. camera → /kæm(ə)rə/ chocolate → /tʃɒk(ə)lət/ history /hɪst(ə)rɪ/ vegetable → /vedʒ(ɪ)təbl̩/ family → /fæm(ɪ)lɪ/ Elision of Vowels The vowel /ə/ can disappear in the first unstressed syllables after /p, t, k/. The loss of /ə/ is replaced by aspiration of the initial plosive. h I think we should call the police (/p li:s/). h Are you coming out tonight /t naɪt/?