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Odjel za anglistiku
Paula Jurković
CONTENTS:
1. Allophones
1.1. Allophones, criteria for identifying allophones
1.2. Devoicing, nasalization, voicing, fronting, retraction,
dentalization, velarization
1.3. Narrow and broad transcription
2. Connected speech
2.1. Assimilation
2.2. Coalescence, elision, liaison, smoothing and compression
2.3. Strong form, weak form, citation form
3. The syllable
3.1. Onset, coda, nucleus
3.2. Consonant cluster, minimum syllable, zero onset, zero
coda
3.3. Pre- initial, initial and post-initial consonants
3.4. Pre- final, final and post-final consonants
4. Stress
4.1. Definition of stress and its functions
4.2. Characteristics, factors and levels of stress
4.3. Languages and stress
4.4. Complex words
1. ALLOPHONES
2. CONNECTED SPEECH
2.1. Assimilation
Assimilation is the adaptation of a segment to the adjacent one,
motivated by the process in connected speech at word boundaries.
There are two types of assimilation in English; regressive and
progressive.
3. THE SYLLABLE
4. STRESS