The System Sound and Listening

Presented by:

Oscar Manuel Ramirez

Are

Can be

Can happens in

Background Potential Segmentation Problems Problem with number

Unstressed vowels

Omitted sounds

Alternation of the full form Prepositions

Pronouns

Auxiliary Verbs

The Sound System and Listening

Conjunctions

Blending Contractions Assimilation

Articles

Common phonological process by which one sound becomes more like a nearby sound

Spoken two-word sequences that observe a Word boundary.

Conventionalized written sequences that observe a Word boundary

Such as

Chunking Words Reduced Speech

Function Word

Verbal phrases reduction Straightforward reductions Ambiguous reductions

Segmentation

Happen in

Reduced Speech

Verbal Phrases Reductions

Straightforward

Reductions

Ambiguous Reductions

Used to: ustaSupposed to: suppostaOught to: oughta

Got to : gottaHave to : haftaHas to : HastaDon’t know : donnoMight have : mightaMust have : mustaShould have : shoulda

What do you mean? What do you doing? Whaddaya

Segmentation

Why tryA teaseIs Ann around?Joan ElsonPaid A

White ryeAt easeIs Anna round?Joe NelsonPay day

My turnKey punching May Karen Paula praised A tax on city buses Nitrate

Might turnKeep punchingMake KarenPaul appraisedAttacks on city busesNight rate

Chunking words

Criteria 3 Intonation units

2 intonation units

Number of unified pitch contours

3 pitch contours:Alfred/ said the boss/ is stupid

2 pitch contours:Alfred said/ the boss is stupid

Frequency of lengthening of unit final stressed syllable

3 lengthened syllables:AlfredBOSSSTUpid

2 lengthened syllables:AlfredSTUpid

Number of pauses 3 pauses, after:AlfredBossStupid

2 pauses, after:SaidStupid

Frequency of pitch reset 2 pitch resets, at:SaidIs

1 pitch reset, at:The boss