English Phonetics and Phonology

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Würzburg, language: English, abstract: This seminar paper will be about the phonemic transcription of an excerpt from an online article from the Huffington Post. The subject is Willem-Alexander¿s first visit to Germany after his investiture as King of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The phonemic or broad transcription will be based on the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary by Daniel Jones (2011). After the transcription, some differences between Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA) will be shown on the basis of some examples from the text. The second part of this seminar paper will broach the issue of different phonological phenomena given in the text. This theoretical part of the written seminar paper will deal, first of all, with the allophones clear [l] and dark [¿], then the so called ¿happY-Tensing¿ will be presented, afterwards this paper will deal with the syllabic consonants and at last a distinction of so-called strong and weak forms will be given.