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Specializations => Phonetics and Phonology => Topic started by: Yasrez on October 26, 2017, 04:48:15 AM
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Hello guys ! Ready for this question?
"Luisa is amazing".
How do read it ? and how do we call this phenomenon in Phonetics?
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I think you mean the alliteration of the 'z' sound.
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I read it as [luˈisa ɪz əˈmɛɪzɪŋ]. If the example were "Louisa is amazing", I'd read it as [lʊˈizə ɪz əˈmɛɪzɪŋ]. It's not called code-switching, because my Spanish is execrable (it's even a code, for me). I don't know of a specific term that describes the habit of accommodating pronunciation of words from foreign languages, as observed in pronunciation of "Bach" (with
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Maybe you have something else in mind, in which case you could re-write the question.
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Here is the #answer.
"Louisa is amazing" is
/lʊˈizə R ɪz əˈmɛɪzɪŋ/ and the phonetic phenomenon is called "Linking (or Intrusive R). "
The Intrusive R sound in English is an extra sound that we use between two words when we are connecting these two words together.
Between a word-final schwa
/ə/ spelt with an < a > (e.g. China, Lisa, America) and a new word beginning with a vowel sound, /r/ will act as a connector e.g. "Vanilla is not black : Vanilla Ris not black/ , "America and France : America Rand France, ... "
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There can be several consecutive Intrusive Rs, e.g:
"The extra area America added": The extra Rarea Ramerica Radded.