2018-02-20 Pronunciation: 's' and 'es' endings

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Handout p. 27 exercise 1A - Which phrase do you hear?
What’s the difference between all the words in the left column and all the ones in the right?
- The phrases on the right have one more syllable than the ones on the left.
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exercise 2A - Listen to the audio. What is missing from the pronunciation?
p. 28 2B - Listen to the correct audio and write the endings.
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case - case’s, bus - bus’s: /s/ sound (spelled with ‘s’ or ‘c’)
dish - dish’s, fish - fish’s, Josh, Josh’s: /ʃ/ sound (usually spelled ‘sh’)
catch - catch’s, Mitch - Mitch’s, watch - watch’s: /tʃ/ sound (usually spelled ‘ch’)
Buzz - Buzz’s, exercise’s, Liz’s, Charles’s: /z/ sound (spelled with ‘s’ or ‘z’)
garage’s, massage’s: /ʒ/ sound (spelled ‘zh’ in names or usually ‘ge’ at the end
message’s, judge’s: /dʒ/ sound (spelled ‘j’ or ‘ge’ or ‘dge’)
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the judge’s car - possessive
the judge’s going home - contraction with “is”
the judge’s been sick - contraction with “has”
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After the above sounds, the ‘s’ ending sounds like /əz/.
Greg’s - sounds like /z/ (after all other voiced sounds: /b v d ð g y r l w/ and vowels)
students - sounds like /s/ (after all other voiceless sounds: /p f t θ k/)
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p. 30 exercise 6A - Do you add a sound (/s/ or /z/) or a syllable (/əz/) to these words?
1 dances - syllable
2 leaves - sound
3 starts - sound
4 confuses - syllable
5 improves - sound
6 magazines - sound
7 analyzes - syllable
8 reacts - sound
9 finishes - syllable
10 assumes - sound