CD 2 Track 27
Exercise 1-54: Intonation and Pronunciation of “That”
That is a special case because it serves three different grammatical functions. The relative pronoun and the conjunction are reducible. The demonstrative pronoun cannot be reduced to a schwa sound. It must stay [æ].
Relative Pronoun The car that she ordered is red. [the car th't she order diz red]
Conjunction He said that he liked it. [he sed the dee l?ikdit.]
Demonstrative Why did you do that? [why dijoo do thæt?]
Combination I know that he'll read that book [äi know the dill read thæt bűk
That I told you about the dai toljoo（w）' bæot.]
Exercise 1-54: Intonation and Pronunciation of “That”
That is a special case because it serves three different grammatical functions. The relative pronoun and the conjunction are reducible. The demonstrative pronoun cannot be reduced to a schwa sound. It must stay [æ].
Relative Pronoun The car that she ordered is red. [the car th't she order diz red]
Conjunction He said that he liked it. [he sed the dee l?ikdit.]
Demonstrative Why did you do that? [why dijoo do thæt?]
Combination I know that he'll read that book [äi know the dill read thæt bűk
That I told you about the dai toljoo（w）' bæot.]