2018-01-18 Pronunciation: can that had

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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chug (This is onomatopoeia: the word sounds something like what it represents.)
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Reduction of “can”:
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(Remember that [ə] is the relaxed sound we call “schwa”.)
I cən talk now.
I can’t talk now.
James cən talk now.
James can’t talk now. (Each vowel has full pronunciation, but the intoation is still higher on “James” and “talk”.)
Cən James talk now?
Can’t James talk now?
Yes, he can. / No, he can’t. (At the end of a clause or phrase, “can” gets full pronunciation.)
- (That is true about all verbs that sometimes have reduced pronunciation, such as “will” and “going to”.)
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p. 68 exercise 12 A - Student A say one of the statements (with “can” or “can’t”). Student B should respond with what you think is the appropriate response.
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Some other words have differrent uses, some of which are stressed and others are reduced.
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I know that. (“that” as a demonstrative pronoun is pronounced fully)
I know that guy. (“that” as a determiner is pronounced fully)
I know that he will be here. (“that” as a conjunction is reduced to “thət”)
He’s the man that was here yesterday. (The relative pronoun “that” is also reduced.)
He said that that was the problem. -> “thət that”
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He had had an earache all day. -> “həd had” (the auxiliary “had” is reduced, the main verb isn’t)
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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 correct.)
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That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Isn't that it? It is.
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Betty bought a bit of butter,
But her butter made her batter bitter,
So Betty bought a bit of better butter
To make her bitter batter better.
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Mairzy doats and dozey doats
And little lamsey divey.
A kiddly divey, too.
Wouldn’t you?
Mares eat oats and does eat oats
And little lambs eat ivy.
A kid’ll eat ivy, too.
Wouldn’t you?