Fonética

y fonología del inglés

PhonSev
Darío Barrera Pardo
dario@us.es

Unit 3: The consonants of English

Activity 8: Unreleased plosives

Objective:

The objective of this activity is to learn what is an unreleased plosive.


Instructions:


At home / before coming to class:

1. Do Tutorial 11: OBSTRUENTS II, Section 1: Release of plosives


In class:

1. Bring at least one laptop per group. Bring your earphones!










2. Listen to these utterances. Transcribe them in a narrow transcription.

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2 https://hdvirtual.us.es/discovirt/index.php/s/YmCWbyxIG2613ck

3 https://hdvirtual.us.es/discovirt/index.php/s/09ikjGqH1MM8ikj

4 https://hdvirtual.us.es/discovirt/index.php/s/TUYA24rC8VMxmoZ

5 https://hdvirtual.us.es/discovirt/index.php/s/UQ2wCEh8SR5xteF

6 https://hdvirtual.us.es/discovirt/index.php/s/xtS8Ag1QAPKhAXX

7 https://hdvirtual.us.es/discovirt/index.php/s/k0METrMd5Xk6hzn

8 https://hdvirtual.us.es/discovirt/index.php/s/vb0D7gj310Z3lPk

9 https://hdvirtual.us.es/discovirt/index.php/s/Lerta7AKnyv7UNd



3. Below are listed a number of professions. Read and transcribe them in a narrow
transcription.

Professions Transcription

cab driver

bank teller

music teacher

art dealer

stockbroker

football player

flight attendant

truck driver


4. Below there are a piece of news items; read them and then find the nasally released
plosives that occur in the text and transcribe them.

GOLDEN OLDIES

This is some of the music we’ll play this evening: ‘The tunnel of love’,
‘Wooden heart’, ‘I beg you pardon’, ‘The rose garden’, ‘Britain rules
the waves’, and lastly ‘Suddenly it’s spring’.