This course aims at making students familiar with the description of colloquial oral English. The accent under scrutiny will be essentially RP-related Non-regional pronunciation (NRP) with features of Estuary English (EE) with special attention to connected speech.
Hee a non-exhaustive list of phenomena to be dealt with: Standard Accents of English: reminder
Sounds of English: brush-up
Predictable vs. idiosyncratic features of pronunciation
L, R types, linking R and intrusive R
The fate of vowels before R & L: Pre-R breaking, broadening,
smoothing
The fate of voiceless plosives: aspiration, glottaling, tapping Syncope, syllable squeezing & syllabic consonants Assimilation & Elision
Hee a non-exhaustive list of phenomena to be dealt with: Standard Accents of English: reminder
Sounds of English: brush-up
Predictable vs. idiosyncratic features of pronunciation
L, R types, linking R and intrusive R
The fate of vowels before R & L: Pre-R breaking, broadening,
smoothing
The fate of voiceless plosives: aspiration, glottaling, tapping Syncope, syllable squeezing & syllabic consonants Assimilation & Elision
- Enseignant: Gabor TURCSAN