VI JORNADA INTERESTITUCIONAL DE EXPERIENCIAS PEDAGGICAS

EN EL PROCESO DE ENSEANZA Y APRENDIZAJE DEL INGLS

UNEXPO - UPEL-IPB

THE WORD IN
NORMAL
COLLOQUIAL
SPEECH
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THE WORD IN
NORMAL
COLLOQUIAL
SPEECH
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Declamatory style:
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Formal colloquial:
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Less familiar:
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BREATH GROUP

Imetheronmywaytothecinema
I met / her on / my way / to /the cinema
I mether / onmy way / to the cinema

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BREATH GROUP
1.The cars outside. (single breath)

2.Coming out of the theatre // we found it utterly impossible to get a

taxicab. (long sentence)
3.His teeth were rotten / and he had bad breath. (Correctly grouped)

4.His teeth // were rotten and // he had // bad // breath.

(INCORRECTLY GROUPED)

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SENSE GROUP

// Once upon a time / there was a king / who failed to please

his subjects // and was in consequence / in instant peril //

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RHYTHM UNIT AND FLUENCY

Take them home
Once upon a time (READY-MADE phrase)
Im leaving now /

stress group

rhythm unit

stress group

rhythm unit
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RHYTHM UNIT AND FLUENCY

Some simple rules to group words or syllables into rhythm units:

Any unstressed syllable at the beginning of a word group must go together with the
following stress group:
// AsI didit //
// myattempt //
/
/
/
/
If the unstressed syllables are closely grammatically connected to the stressed word, they
belong to the same rhythm unit:
// movethem silently //
// wheres theorchestra //
/
/
/
/

Whenever you are in doubt as to which rhythm unit unstressed syllables belong to, put
them after a stress rather than before it.
She was taller than me.
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// shewastallerthan me //
/
/

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THE LOCATION OF THE

PHRASE BOUNDARY

1. AFTER AN INTERROGATIVE WORD (What?, Where?, How?, )

//What did you / do / last night?//

// Where is she / working?//

// I wonder how she did it.//

// I wonder / how she / did it.//

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THE LOCATION OF THE

PHRASE BOUNDARY

2. Phrasal Verbs

//He turned off the light.//

// He turned off / the light.//
// He turned off the road.//
// He turned / off the road.//
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THE LOCATION OF THE

PHRASE BOUNDARY

3. Conjunctions
a. // I telephoned, // but John / was out.//
// He said / that he wanted / a pen.//

// He said that / yesterday.//

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THE LOCATION OF THE

PHRASE BOUNDARY

3. Conjunctions
b. //water and / ice//
// There were / old / men and / women.//
// There were / old / men / and women.//

//I have / black and / white cats.//

// I have / black / and white cats.//
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THE LOCATION OF THE

PHRASE BOUNDARY
4. Prepositions
// A lot of / people / were there.//
//Its the Prince of / Wales.//
5. Weak Forms
// Johns / coming today.//
//Hell / do it.//
// I am / waiting for / you//
// What are you / waiting / for?//

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Taken from:
The Word in Connected speech by Angel Milano
Pronunciation Practice by Donn Byrne and Gordon Walsh
An Outline of English Phonetics by Daniel Jones

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