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blood about this family has excited one who believed that he was a Celt himself.

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L o s s o f P l o s i o n «

Mind that when a plosive consonant is immediately followed by noise consonants (both fricative and plosive, voiceless and voiced)

it loses plosion. In case of two plosives running (whether within a word or at the junction of words) the first loses plosion, the second

does not.

Remember that when a plosive consonant is immediately followed by the sonorant [n] or [l] it loses plosion but makes [n] and [l]

plosive (we call it 'nasal plosion' and 'lateral plosion'). Sometimes in spelling there are some letters between those representing the

plosive and the sonorant but they are not pronounced like in 'modern'.

7.

Read the words and the sentences:

A. 'Robert Garton

let down

subtle

currant bushes

sudden

gentleman

8.

B. 1. She wants awakening. 2. Do you threaten women? 3. Only a lady, lieutenant, calling me. 4. It heightened their interest. 5.

Isn't it reasonable? 6. I begged him to sit down. 7. It gave him confidence.

EXERCISES IN INTONATION

SECTION ONE

REVIEW OF PART TWO 8EXERCISES Simple Tunes

1. "9 This exercise is meant to review Intonation Patterns IX and XII. Listen carefully to the following sentences. Mark the stresses and tunes. Listen to the sentences again. Pronounce the unstressed syllables of the pre-head as low as possible. Make the stressed and the unstressed syllables of the head carry the

pitch lower, until you come to the last stressed syllable of all, which starts very high and falls right down to the bottom of the voice. Any syllables after the

last stressed syllable are said on a very low note. Do not forget to blend the words together. Give a conversational context with the same sentences. Say what

attitudes you mean to render.

Intonation Pattern IX

(LOW PRE-HEAD +) HIGH FALL (+ TAIL)

Intonation Pattern XII

(LOW PRE-HEAD +) HIGH HEAD + HIGH FALL (+ TAIL)

Move.

I'll see.

I did.

They shall.

They can.

Try to.

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That side.

We're wet.

This time.

You must tell me.

I'm in it.

We could trace it.

Borrow one.

It was all here.

John took it.

This is the best.

Wait for them.

It isn't steady.

That was it.

I'm not wanted.

You aren't.

I think you'd better ask the others.

Henry said he'd wait for us at home.

What time do you generally have breakfast?

I was held up at the last moment.

Which of Shakespeare's plays d'you like best?

2. This exercise is meant to review Intonation Pattern XIII. Listen carefully to the following sentences. Mark the stresses and tunes. Listen to the

sentences again. Pronounce the stressed and the unstressed syllables of the high head on the same rather high pitch. The very last stressed syllable

starts from a medium to a high pitch. Do not forget to blend the words together. Give a conversational context with the same sentences. Say what

attitudes you mean to render.

Intonation Pattern XIII

(LOWPRE-HEAD +) (HIGH HEAD + ) HIGH RISE

Always?

Which is it?