Exercise 1-52: Reducing Articles
Consonants Vowels
The man a girl thee（y）apple an orange [??nornj]
The best a banana thee（y）egg an opening [??nop'ning]
The last one a computer thee（y）easy way an interview [??ninerview]
When you used the rubber band with [Dag zeet bounz] and when you built your own sentence, you saw that intonation reduces the unstressed words. Intonation is the peak and reduced sounds are the valleys. In the beginning, you should make extra-high peaks and long, deep valleys. When you are not sure, reduce. In the following exercise, works with this idea. Small words such as articles, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, relative pronouns, and auxiliary verbs are lightly skimmed over the almost not pronounced.
You have seen how intonation changes the meaning in words and sentences. Inside a one-syllable word, it distinguishes between a final voiced or unvoiced consonant be-ed and bet. Inside a longer word, eunuch vs unique, the pronunciation and meaning change in terms of vocabulary. In a sentence （He seems nice; He seems nice.）, the meaning changes in terms of intent.
In a sentence, intonation can also make a clear vowel sound disappear. When a vowel is stressed, it has a certain sound; when it is not stressed, it usually sounds like uh, pronounced[?]. Small words like to, at or as are usually not stressed, so the vowel disappears.
Consonants Vowels
The man a girl thee（y）apple an orange [??nornj]
The best a banana thee（y）egg an opening [??nop'ning]
The last one a computer thee（y）easy way an interview [??ninerview]
When you used the rubber band with [Dag zeet bounz] and when you built your own sentence, you saw that intonation reduces the unstressed words. Intonation is the peak and reduced sounds are the valleys. In the beginning, you should make extra-high peaks and long, deep valleys. When you are not sure, reduce. In the following exercise, works with this idea. Small words such as articles, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, relative pronouns, and auxiliary verbs are lightly skimmed over the almost not pronounced.
You have seen how intonation changes the meaning in words and sentences. Inside a one-syllable word, it distinguishes between a final voiced or unvoiced consonant be-ed and bet. Inside a longer word, eunuch vs unique, the pronunciation and meaning change in terms of vocabulary. In a sentence （He seems nice; He seems nice.）, the meaning changes in terms of intent.
In a sentence, intonation can also make a clear vowel sound disappear. When a vowel is stressed, it has a certain sound; when it is not stressed, it usually sounds like uh, pronounced[?]. Small words like to, at or as are usually not stressed, so the vowel disappears.