04 英语发音学习 - 今天做了些什么 English Pronunciation Study - What did you do Today

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In this American English pronunciation exercise, we're going to study some conversation. Today it's going to be a Ben Franklin exercise, where we analyze the speech together. Today's topic: what did you do today?

. . . . . . Great. Let's get started.

" Tom, what did you do today? " " Tom, what did you do today? " Lots of interesting things happening here.

I noticed first of all that I've dropped the T here: " what did, what did, what did you do? " I'm also noticing I'm getting more of a J sound here, j-ou, j-ou. Whuh-dih-jou, dih-jou.

So the D and the Y here are combining to make the J sound. So we have wuh-dih-jou. " What did you." [x3]

" Tom, what did you do today? " The other thing I notice is that the T here is really more of a flap sound, a D, " do duh-, do duh-, do today" , this is most definitely a schwa, so we're reducing this unstressed syllable to be the schwa. " Today, today, do today, do today." " Tom, what did you do today? "

" Tom, what did you do today? " -" Today? " -" Today." " Today I woke up. . ."

Now here we have " today" three times. Always, the first syllable is reduced to the schwa sound, but I'm noticing that these T's are all True T's, and not Flap T's. That's because they are beginning sentences. So, we're not going to reduce that to a Flap T.

In the case up here, " do today" , it came, the T in " today" , came in between a vowel, " do" , the OO vowel, and the schwa sound. And that's why we made this a flap sound. But here we're beginning a sentence, so we're going to go ahead and give it the True T sound--though we will most definitely reduce to the schwa. " Today."

" Today? " -" Today." [x3] -" Tom, what did you do today? " -" Today? " -" Today." -" Today I woke up. . ." Everything was very connected there, and I know that when we have something ending in a vowel or diphthong sound, and the next word beginning in a vowel or diphthong sound, that we want that to really glide together, " today I." [x3]

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