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Phonetics Flashcards

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What are minimal pairs?

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A pair of words that DIffer only by one phoneme. Share / Chair Glow/ grow.

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Difference between advice and advise?

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Homonyms vs Homophones

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Homonyms: same spelling and more than one meaning.

Fit bear date

Homophones: different spelling and meaning but sound the same. Flower/flour sell/cell

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What’s a cluster?

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A combination of 2 3 or 4 consonant sounds at the beginning, end or middle of a word.

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Syllabic consonants

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Are I useful tool of pronouncing classic sounds The sound more native like. It consists of a omitting the vowel sound schwa between 2 consonant sounds. It is to skip a vowel sound between consonants. For example 7 suddenly medal.

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S endings

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Ellipsis and near ellipsis

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Ellipses and neurolypses happens when we delete or omit certain words that are part of our speech. When their obvious from the context.

The 1st case happens with personal pronouns I read a book.

The 2nd case is living out it

And your near ellipsis is when we mix and link sounds instead of completely erasing the word.
Such as saying I’m leaving now
Or with the aux have

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8
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Excuse vs excuse

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/s/ noun
She made a false excuse
/z/ they excused themselves from coming to class

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Loose vs Lose

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Loose /s/ adjetive: loose pants
Lose /z/ verb to lose my mind

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Every day vs everyday

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Every day separate is an adverb
Every day I wake up at 5 am to go to school
Everyday together is an adjective : my everyday routine consists of waking up at 5 am.

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Fortis and lenis

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sometimes identified with tense and lax, are pronunciations of consonants with relatively greater and lesser energy, respectively

P is fortis and it’s lenis counterpart would be b

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12
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How many sounds in the English phonetic system?

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12 vowels, 8 dipthongs, 24 consonants

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Weak and strong forms

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English is a stress based language Which means some words are stressed and others are not when speaking. Usually content words like nouns and main verbs are stressed, While others like articles aren’t stressed. When this happens the weak word will have its bowels replaced by a dependent a depending on stress. And because of this the meaning of a sentence can chang. As a rule the strong form of a word is usually at the end of a sentence, and when this happens we call it stranded.

Can you pass the milk?
I CAN do it, but I won’t

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Practice/ practise

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Uk: practice with a C is a noun and with an S a verb, in the USA both are with an s

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Explain intonation in question tags

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the greater control you have over your rising and falling intonation the more you can do with your communication in English

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What does falling intonation mean?

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Falling intonation is used when the sentence is more like an statement, you’re sure about what you’re saying, and only seek confirmation.

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17
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Why are questions tag important in conversation?

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Both patterns, falling intonation and rising intonation are important because they are very common in spoken English as they invite people to join the conversation, either asking them for confirmation or seeking a real answer.

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What does rising intonation mean?

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This rising International means of sentence is more of a real question, you’re expecting an answer. Usually theres a pause before the q
. For example, John didn’t feel his driving test again did he? In this case you don’t know if failed his exam or not so you’re asking for an answer.

19
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Explain word stress

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The meaning of a word can change if you stress a different syllable. This really happens with a few words not all of them, Most of these words are 2 syllables long, but they can also be 3 sylllable long in some cases.

There are 2 categories.

Words that change from noun to verb When the stress moves from the 1st to the 2nd syllable l and keep the same general meaning.

Addict

Then the 2nd category are words that change completely in meaning, Most of them change from a noun to a verb, but can change to an adjective.
Converse .

20
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What’s another word for early stress

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Main stress

21
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Refuse

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Ri:’fjuz = decline to do something
‘Refjus= rubbish

22
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Console

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Kən’səul = give sympathy n comfort
‘Konsəul = a keyboard, or a panel of switches

23
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Contract

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‘Kontract = formal legal agreement
kən’tract = get smaller

24
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Content

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Happy, satisfied = kən’tent
‘Kontent = what is contained in something

25
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Extract

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Pull out = iks’trakt
A short passage from a longer text= ‘ekstrakt

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Object

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Disagree, protest= əb’dgekt
A thing = ‘obdgekt

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Minute

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Very small= mai’nju:t
Sixty seconds= ‘minit

28
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Desert

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Go away from, leave= di’zə:t
A place where nothing grows= ‘dezət

29
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An armed Bank raid

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Hold up

30
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A burglary

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Break in

31
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An appearance by a star who had retired

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Comeback

32
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A sudden strike

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Walk out

33
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A cinematic device where the film

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Flashback

34
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A sudden period of rain

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Downpour

35
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A mechanical failure

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Breakdown

36
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A ten second period before the departure of rocket

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Countdown

37
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The moment of departure of a rocket

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Lift of f

38
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Initial expenditure on a particular project

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Outlay

39
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What’s a phrasal verb?

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A phrasal verb is a combination of verb + preposition, or sometimes an adverb. The preposition or adverb changes the meaning of the verb, giving each phrasal verb an unique meaning.

40
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What’s word stress?

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When we stress a word we elongate the main vowel sound in the most important words in a sentence.

I

41
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Phrasal verb as a verb

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The stress is on the preposition.

He dropped OUT
Picked her UP
Turned it ON

42
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Phrasal verb as a noun or adjective

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The stress is on the verb
He is a high-school DROP out.
BACK up.

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