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Breaking Speech into Units (6): Individual Sound Production
Plural / Third Person Singular Endings (Fricative sounds) & Regular Past Tense Endings
This extract has been designed to make you become aware of the pronunciation of final
consonants, particularly, what weve been practising before: past tense pronunciation and plural /
third person singular endings. Identify the corresponding units, place prominent syllables where
needed in each unit. Work on identifying the major movements of your voice on such prominent
syllables and notice the linking sounds existing within these units and start practising in order to
take your fluency to another level of achievement.
Jesse turned up one of the walks and went into a residence hall, walking
quickly, as if he lived here, and once inside he paused to wait a few
minutes. It was crowded here. Jesse had always felt oddly benevolent
toward the undergraduates at the university, though they had money and
he was poor; he thought of them as children, they were so boisterous
and sure of themselves. They lived in rooms jammed with junk, dirty
clothes and towels flung everywhere, sheets that went unchanged for
weeks, they played poker and drank happily and stupidly; they were
children and could be blamed for nothing. Those who did not live in
residence halls lived in palatial fraternity houses enormous houses
where music blared and curtains were blown outside windows. Jesse
thought of these young people as jammed together warmly, perpetually.
They came alive in crowds. Their faces brightened in herds. He envied
them but felt, in a way, protective of them: when he was a doctor he
would be serving them.