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In words spelt with y or ey (haepi, vaeli) and in morpheme-final positlon when such words

Have suffixes beginning with vowels (haepia, iiziest), in a prefix as those spelt re, pre, de

lf it precedes a vowel and is unstressed (riaskt), in the suffixes spelt iate, ious when they have 2

Syllables (0pri:Jieit), in the following words when unstressed he, she, we, me

Syllables containing a close front unrounded vowel we can assign the vowel to the I phoneme

(rizist, inAf). Weak syllables with close round back rounded vowels are not so

Commonly found.

Syllabic consonant: I is most noticeable. Occurs after another consonant,

and the way it is produced depends to some extent on the naturę of the consonant.

If the preceding consonant is alveoral (botl, mAdl, tAnl) the articulatory movement from the Freceding consonant to the syllabic I is simple. The tounge is lowered so tha air escapes Over hlm. This so called dark I. spelling with alveora! consonant preceding (kaetl) and With non-alveoral (kApl).

m, i) occur as syllabic, but only as a result of processes Such as assimilation and elision (haspm, haepn).

r is less commo in RP and in most cases where it occurs there are acceotable alternative pronunciation without the syllabic consonant: non-syllable r is acceptable (histri, wondra), where er is acceptable (bAtrio, bAtarii])

Strong forms

Is acceptable in some specific contexts. Many weak forms when occur at the end of the sentence

take their strong forms: (fDnd dv), when a weak-form is being contraseted

with another word ('tu: an 'frDm 'lAndan a 'lot), when a weak-form is given stress for

the purpose of emphasis (ju 'mAst 'giv mi 'mo: 'mAni),

when a weak form is being quoted (put 'aend at di end av a 'sentans).

When weak form word whose spelling begins with /h/ occur at the begginig

Of a sentence, the pronunciation is with initial /h/.

the - weak form da (before consonants) di {before vowels)

a, an - weak form a {before consonant) an (before vowels)

than - weak form dan

his - (when it occurs before the a noun) iz

your- weak form ja (before consonant), jar (before vowels)

us - weak form as

prepositions occur in their strong forms when they are finał in a sentence at - weak form at

for - weak form fa (before consonants), far (before vowels), fb: (in finał position)

Vowel changes

Weakening makes all vowels move to the centre of the vowel space. They move To the central quality nearest to their original one. !:->l/l,);, 3:, o: ->schwa Kud/kad, du:->du->da, ju:->ju->ja

Consonant change

Depends on the phonetic context and register.

H may be elided if it is not at the beginning of the utterance Tel hlm-> tel Im

d/t may be elided when at the end of a word and preceded by another consonant: aend-> and -> an .

Use of weak forms in RP

Grammatical words are not used in weak forms when:

The word is stressed because of emphasis or contrast When preposition/auxiliary verb appear in grammatical Structure: I was looking at-aet, but I can too-kaen Stranding takes place at the end of the sentence and

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