Session 5. P1T5 Verb and Connected Speech related Terms | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

the way a speaker highlights certain words in each sentence. It helps the listener focus on important parts and understand the speaker's meaning. Example: He's had a HEART ATTACK

Sentence Stress

syllable sounds that become unstressed in connected speech and are often then pronounced as a schwa.

Weak form

a feature of connected speech. When two words are said together, an extra sound is sometimes placed between them in order to make them easier to say. Example: 'I am not happy' becomes "I yam not happy" with an intrusive /j/ sound

Intrusion

Omission of a sound or sounds in connected speech, often because it follows other similar sounds, commonly t + d Example: 'I don't know' /I duno/ or Baked beans /beɪkˈbiːnz/

Elision

a term is used in phonology to refer to the boundary between sounds where the speaker may pause slightly to show where the boundary is; this explains the difference between the pronunciation of that stuff and that's tough

Juncture

a feature of connected speech when a sound changes to another sound because of a neighbouring sound e.g. in ten boys /n/ followed by /b/ changes to /m/ as in /tembɔɪz/

Assimilationn

verbs that have little meaning alone but that can be joined together with many other words, so generating a wide variety of new meanings. eg. the get in get older

Delexicalised Verbs

A verb which, unlike the infinitive, is marked for tense, person, number e.g. plays, worked.

Finite Verb

A verb which does not take an object.

Intransitive Verb

a noun that is created by adding -ing to the verb-stem (e.g. Parking is not permitted)

Gerund (Do not confuse with Present Participle!!!! Gerund is a NOUN, Participle is a VERB)

a grammatical category which is used to indicate the time at which an action happens by changing the form of the finite verb. English has two: past and present e.g. he walked and he walks

Tense

verbs which are used to support another verb in a sentence and have a grammatical function such as showing tense, aspect, person, voice and mood e.g. be, do, have, will, may, can

Auxiliary Verbs

a term used to describe a verb which links the subject and the complement e.g. That looks delicious, He became a teacher

Copular Verb

the grammatical term that refers to the part of the sentence that follows certain verbs and gives information about the subject of the sentence, e.g. He's a doctor. I feel exhausted.

Complement

a term for the forms of the verb which express the speaker's or writer's attitude to what is said or written. There are 3 types: indicative, imperative and subjunctive.

Mood

this term indicates, how in a verb phrase, the speaker or writer sees an event (representing, for example, degree of completeness or duration) regardless of the time of the event itself

Aspect