Wednesday, March 27, 2013

91. Form-Meaning Pairings

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Consider this: if there weren’t a pairing between a semantic structure and a phonological structure, we wouldn’t be able to recognize what we hear, or we wouldn’t be able to convey ideas in communication.
It is a commonplace, for instance, to see in English textbooks at least one exercise trying to explain to students than can is pronounced without a vowel, that /d/ in could is assimilated to the sound in the next word (a verb, if there is no adverb to be placed in between)...

But the best thing to do is to listen and judge for yourselves.

And, in so doing, try your listening comprehension abilities.

The following recording is related to the exercises in the previous post. It would be better to do that first, and then come back to #91.

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Answers:
1 D – 2 D – 3 A – 4 C – 5 D
 

3 comments:

  1. I don´t understand the reason why in number 2 is D because he didn't say anything about interest in football. Mayte

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    1. Hi,

      He says(I quote),IT'S A TRAGEDY, AN ABSOLUTE TRAGEDY AND AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, THAT'S IT. YOU WON'T FIND ME GOING TO A FOOTBALL MATCH AGAIN WITH THE CHILDREN...OR EVEN BY MYSELF FOR THAT MATTER. I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'M EVEN GOING TO GIVE UP WATCHING IT ON TV.

      I preferred to type the audio-script in capital letters because I'm not sure that the text is rendered if I use inverted commas. I did it once and, when I published it, there was no quoted text.

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    2. The same has happened to me. Thank you for the explanation Eugenia. Helena.-

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