<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The present study portrays some of the key aspects of connected speech in English, as adopted by 42 native Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian-speaking undergraduate students of English in the English Department, University of Tuzla, in the academic year 2013/2014. More specifically, the study shows how successfully these students developed their transcription skills in English, particularly when it comes to the use of diacritics for dental, velarised, and syllabic consonants of English, as well as for aspirated and unreleased (unexploded) English plosives. In addition, the study focuses on the coalescent type of assimilation. Connected speech (also known as rapid, relaxed, casual, or fluent speech) is characterised by a number of phonetic phenomena. The paper also analyses the level to which students enrolled in the English Department in Tuzla have developed a sense of elementary terms in this field, an understanding of the English sound system, and generally speaking, to what extent they developed their broad and narrow transcription skills.</p></abstract>

The present study portrays some of the key aspects of connected speech in English, as adopted by 42 native Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian-speaking undergraduate students of English in the English Department, University of Tuzla, in the academic year 2013/2014. More specifically, the study shows how successfully these students developed their transcription skills in English, particularly when it comes to the use of diacritics for dental, velarised, and syllabic consonants of English, as well as for aspirated and unreleased (unexploded) English plosives. In addition, the study focuses on the coalescent type of assimilation. Connected speech (also known as rapid, relaxed, casual, or fluent speech) is characterised by a number of phonetic phenomena. The paper also analyses the level to which students enrolled in the English Department in Tuzla have developed a sense of elementary terms in this field, an understanding of the English sound system, and generally speaking, to what extent they developed their broad and narrow transcription skills.

From introduction to phonemic symbols to development of transcription skills: A case study in the English Department at University of Tuzla

English Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla

ExELL

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The present study portrays some of the key aspects of connected speech in English, as adopted by 42 native Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian-speaking undergraduate...

From introduction to phonemic symbols to development of transcription skills: A case study in the English Department at University of Tuzla

Published Online: Apr 22, 2016

Page range: 116 - 132

Received: Jun 23, 2014

Accepted: Oct 29, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/exell-2016-0006

Keywords
connected speech, phoneme, allophone, transcription, aspects of connected speech, coalescent assimilation, diacritics, aspirated and unreleased plosives, dentalisation, velarisation, syllabic consonants

© 2014 Sanel Hadžiahmetović Jurida, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

From introduction to phonemic symbols to development of transcription skills: A case study in the English Department at University of Tuzla

Published Online: Apr 22, 2016

Page range: 116 - 132

Received: Jun 23, 2014

Accepted: Oct 29, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/exell-2016-0006

Keywordsconnected speech, phoneme, allophone, transcription, aspects of connected speech, coalescent assimilation, diacritics, aspirated and unreleased plosives, dentalisation, velarisation, syllabic consonants

© 2014 Sanel Hadžiahmetović Jurida, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
connected speech, phoneme, allophone, transcription, aspects of connected speech, coalescent assimilation, diacritics, aspirated and unreleased plosives, dentalisation, velarisation, syllabic consonants