What you see below is the waveform of the snippet in my previous post:
Monday, 17 November 2014
listening comprehension - top down or bottom up - #2
Sidney Wood - one of my blog followers - commented on my previous post on listening comprehension by saying that the extract sounds like [ɘˈləðə]. What follows is the section (highlighted in the waveform in dark grey) which for my ears corresponds to [ɘˈləðə]:
What you see below is the waveform of the snippet in my previous post:
The latter includes the verb 'have'.
What you see below is the waveform of the snippet in my previous post:
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The first one sounds like [bəˈlɪθəm] or [bəˈlɪðəm] to me. The [m] must be in my imagination.
ReplyDeleteIsn't the [ð] sound a bit longer than usual?
ReplyDeleteOr rather, doesn't it sound a bit like [dð]?
DeleteI mean a dental [d], of course.
Delete(A glottal stop, perhaps, as Sidney Wood said?)
The waveform of the extract shows no occlusions where two are expected, /k/ and /t/ ('look at'). The [ðə] is OK, as expected ('the papers'). You could argue that the /t/ ('at the') is assimilate to /ð/, [ðð], but there's still the missing /k/ to account for. The waveform for [lə] shows two peaks in [ə] (if I'm looking at the right place), so there's possibly a hint of [ɣ] between them: [ləɣə(ðə)]. The information we're getting from that reduced sequence would then be ell+schwa+velar+schwa etc, enough to give us 'look at' in that context. So Petr's original suggestion that this is top down perception is probably correct. But when we listen objectively to that extract and transcribe it, all we manage to pick up is [ləðə].
ReplyDeleteGet a Dane to listen to the extract. They're used to hearing [ɣ] for /k/.
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