5.22 美语口语技术要点解析：金牌连读（五）Insertion 添加音与插入音

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What am I saying? (Warmup)

So we’re going to play a game. I’m going to say something very slowly, syllable by syllable. You guys can say it with me. And I want you to listen and try to figure out what I’m saying.

1. j?l si mi j?n?m?nθ

2. ?i j?nɑ?sdɑ?r d?d?fɑ?j?r bɑ?j?k s?d?n’

So what do you think? What am I saying? =\

You'll see me in a month.

She and I started a fire by accident.

The Golden Rules

[Golden Rule #1] Every syllable begins with a consonant

[Golden Rule #2] Maintain the correct number of syllables.

The 5 kinds of Linking Techniques

A. Vowel to Consonant

1. There’s a book on the table.

B. Geminates

1. Same: It takes two to tango.

2. Similar: I made Tim do it.

C. Omission

1. T dropping: What? / I wasn’t sent here as a punishment

2. D dropping:

3. H Silencing: He’s in his office

D. Transformation

1. Don’t you

2. Didn’t you

3. Want to

4. Going to

5. Got to

E. Insertion (Watch video online)

1. Idea

2. Situation

Insertion:

Sometimes when we cut a dialogue into syllables, we have a problem. The problem is that we will end up with two vowel sounds and no consonant between them. Remember that we can’t have any syllables begin with a vowel. All syllables MUST begin with a consonant.

Here is an example:

Idea = ɑ? di ?

Situation = s?t??u e???n

In this situation, we have a problem. There isn’t a consonant that we can put between these two syllables. So in this situation, we will actually “insert,”our own consonant between them.

Idea = ɑ?di j?

Situation = s?t??u we???n

Intra-word Insertion:

That means it happens inside of a word. Here are some other examples.

Serious = si?r ri j?s

Furious = fi?r ri j?s

Quiet = kwɑ?j?t

Graduation = gr?d??u we???n

Visual = v???u w?l

So how come sometimes we add a “j,”sound and sometimes we add a “w,”sound? When do we add which sound? Well usually, in American English, consecutive vowel syllables only happen when the first vowel syllable is a long vowel. Let’s take a look at the long vowels then.

Inter-word Insertion

Insertion can also happen between words. It still goes by the same principles.

Here are some examples:

He sent me an email about the account

hi

sen’

mi

j?

ni

me?l

l?

bɑ?’

thi

j?

kɑ?n’

You and I can talk about this later

ju

w?

nɑ?

k?n

t?

k?

bɑ?’

e?s

le?

d?r

We’re all going out tonight, are you in? =

wi?r

r?l

go?

w?

nɑ?’

t?

nɑ?t

ɑ?r

ju

w?

n?r

rɑ?’?