English Pronunciation for Icelanders

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3.2.3 Weak forms which drop their initial h
3 18 - except at the beginning of sentences
Verbs and pronouns: had has have he her him his
strong weak weak at beginning
of utterance
had hæd 0d h0d
has hæz 0z h0z
have hæv 0v h0v
he hI i^ hih^
her hE 0 h0
him him im him
his hiz iz hiz
3 19
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Exercise 27 continued
39 1ðæts ±±±±± 1brÆð0 5 ±±±±± 1brÆð0z 1nais
40 1ðæts ±±±±± 1sist0 5 ±±±±± 1sist0z fæn1tæstik
41 ±±±z ±±1ev0 1met ±±
42 ±±± 1laiks ±±± 1Dob
3 20 TRANSCRIPTION EXERCISE 28: weak forms and
sentence stresses (1)
You should be able to transcribe all the phonemes of RP
English by now. Do the next exercise on a separate sheet
of paper: transcribe the follwoing 12 sentences, marking
sentence stresses and remembering weak forms.
1 What sort of an objection do you expect to receive from
Paul McCartney?
2 Mary, at least, has never pretended she could sing.
3 All of us are more eager to succeed than to fail.
4 We must uncover some of the facts about this confused
issue.
5 That's the man that I saw as I stepped off the train.
6 Some people can never stop drawing attention to
themselves.
7 What can we ask him to do that he hasn't done already?
8 I'd have tried harder if I'd known you were watching.
9 Butch hid his chocolates at the bottom of the box.
10 Corrections should be submitted to the committee today.
11 At a quarter past nine all production ceased at the
Kingston Laboratories
12 They accepted her proposals as a matter of some urgency.