Theoretical phonetics. Study guide for second year students. Борискина О.О - 33 стр.

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Task 11. Explain the mechanism of assimilation and accommodation in:
   a) step aside, don’t argue, beggar.
When [p, b, t, d, k, g] and __________ meet ____________, the consonants are
orally exploded.
   b) step near, don’t kneel, beg me, make noise, statement, kitten, button,
       didn’t, shouldn’t.
When [p, b, t, d, k, g] are followed by [_] or the syllabic consonant [_], the
consonants are nasally exploded.
   c) kettle, glue, ladle, pebble, cattle, fiddle, dental.
When [p, b, t, d, k, g] are followed by the syllabic consonant [_], the consonants
are laterally exploded.

Elision VS. Epenthesis
Task 12. What do phoneticians of different schools and trends call the “missing
out” of a consonant or a vowel, or both as a means of simplifying the
pronunciation of a word or a rhythmic group? What is the most typical
environment for elision? Ref. [Celce-M., 1996 SRM, pp. 54-68]

Task 13. Can you differentiate historical elision from contemporary elision in
the words and phrases below?
write, know, castle, must be, gnat, twenty, lamb, Wednesday, West side, knee,
Christmas, chocolate, prohibition, tell them, tell her, talk, knight, inhibition,
restaurant, reasonable, iron, often, knife, listen, damn it, interesting, mystery,
prehistoric, listless, windmill.

Task 14. Transcribe the word combinations below the way you would
pronounce them in a formal speech and in an everyday situation (rapid
colloquial speech). Which of the given items may be called discourse-sensitive,
situation-sensitive and situation-indifferent? Provide your own illustrations of
Elision-changed forms and analyze the nature of change Ref. [Hewings, 1993,
pp.57-58; Mortimer, 2002, pp.61-62].
Example: the word sounds would rather be pronounced as [saundz] in a Formal
situation, whereas in Rapid speech it would sooner be pronounced as [saunz],
since the consonants [t] and [d] tend to be dropped between other consonants.
    Word combinations             Formal situation          Rapid speech
 sounds                               [saundz]                  [saunz]
 aspects
 parade
 perhaps
 family
 beverage
 winter
 because
 about
 bread and butter