2019-08-08 Pronunciation: can that had

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: Write 5 sentence using some of the words on p. 66. Practice saying them with reduced pronunciations.
I want to buy a cheeseburger. - want to -> wanna, buy a -> baia
He made a mistake. - made a -> “meda”
	What did he do? -> Wadiddy do? -> Wad-dy do?
Is he going to sell food? - is he -> izzy, going to -> gonna
I don’t know anything about math. - I don’t know -> aduno
I should have done my homework. - should have -> shoulda
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“She lives between Boston and Cambridge.”
- “between” is a structure word (preposition), but it’s still pronounced with the full vowel
- Structure words with two or more syllables usually have full pronunciation of the stressed syllable, but are unstressed in the sentence.
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For most words, you need to understand the reduced pronunciation, but you don’t need to pronounce them like that yourself. (You still need to correct stress and rhythm in the sentence.)
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There are some words that we will misunderstand if you don’t reduce them.
I can talk right now.
I can’t talk right now.
- If you don’t reduce “can” in affirmative sentences, many people will hear “can’t”.
	You should at least reduce the vowel to a schwa: [kən].)
	You also shouldn’t stress “can”, because it’s an auxiliary, but you should stress “can’t”, because it’s a negative.

p. 68 exercise 12A - Take turns reading sentence (a) or (b). Respond to your partner with the correct response.
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There are two other common words that can be repeated with different meanings, and you should reduce one of them:

“had”
Tom had had lunch already.
- as an auxiliary verb, it should be reduced
- as a main verb, it should have stress

“that”
- as a demonstrative (pronoun or determiner), it should have stress
	Because of that, I stayed home. I know that book is yours.
- as a conjunction, it shouldn’t have stress [ðət]
	I think that this lesson is boring.
- as a relative pronoun, it shouldn’t have stress
	He’s the man that wrote my favorite book.
I know that that book is yours. - that that -> [ðəʔˈðæt]
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I know that the “that” that that sentence had had had had stress.
-> I know thət thə “that” thət that sentence həd had həd had stress.
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James, while John had had “had had”, had had “had”. “Had had” had had the teacher’s approval.
= James, while John had used past perfect, had used simple past. Past perfect had been approved by the teacher.
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You can can a can but you can’t can a can-can.
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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
Boston cats (that) Cambridge dogs harass bully Summerville rabbits.
(Bufflalo is a city, an animal, and a verb.)