Transcription and Theory Work 3

Transcribe the text (76 words) and do the exercises which follow

It was three o’clock in the afternoon. Barbara was sitting in a café in Rome, near a

famous tower, drinking a strong cup of coffee. She was writing a postcard to her friends

at Quest Productions. A woman sat down at her table. Barbara looked up. The woman

wasn’t Italian, but Barbara did not know her nationality. The woman said, “You’re

English, aren’t you?” Barbara said that she was, and she and the woman started talking

to each other.

a) Find one example of sandhi r and name the process.

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b) Explain the use of “that” in the strong or weak form in the text.

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c) Find an example of a compulsory case of strong form and account for it.

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d) Find an example of monophthonging.

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e) Find an example of elision of a lenis alveolar plosive.

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f) Find an example of smoothing.

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g) Find an example of neutralisation.

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h) Find a grammatical word starting with a fortis post-alveolar fricative.

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i) Find a monosyllabic lexical word containing a front close vowel.

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j) Choose two words to exemplify two different word formation rules.

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