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PRACTICAL ENGLISH PHONETICS

MORĘ TONET1C READINGS ANALYSE AND PRACTISE

Draw the Graphic Contours of the Tonę Units/Melodies and their Sequences.

The generalized, potential pauses suggested below and coinciding with TU boundaries here, are indicated in the text only for comfortable first reading (they form a kind of default version/interpretion) and may be reinterpreted everv time by individual readers and in individual renditions: some may be reduced. other pauses added, lengthened or shortened. (They may be measured by the number of beats - silent stresses, silem syllables. silent feet.)

\Holiday Ar rangements. j A. joyce: ^Well, | ' how did you get 'on? |

B. harry: Let me be gin at the be \ginning. \ When! /got there, | the first thing I did

° was to ¹ go to the infor / mation bureau | ° and ¹ ask for a , list of ho ' tels and \boarding houses. j ° Then 1 r; ' tired to a ' seat in the /park | ° and spent ' half an /hour or so j

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looking through them | and marking the ylikely ones. | The best places

° were ' morę than we could af'ford of course I ⁰ And there were'^others ! ⁰ that were

obviously ] ° a long ' way from the ysea. | ° I checked ' up the adydresses | ° on the

\map they _ gave me. |

A. ' Did you ' like the ’ generał ^feel of the place? | What was it ylike on the whole?

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B. /Weil, | TH ytell you. | The wTiole atmosphere was quite pleasant [ (    ) nice

/shops and so on. | ° And it’s a 'love!y '^bay. | ° The ' tide was \in when I , first , walked along the /front, | ° but ' even yso | ° there was 'quite a lot of '^sand showing. ⁰ And when the 'tide was out j ° there was a tre "mendous expanse | ° I should , say a ' hundred ' yards \wide, | ° and of' course you can ' walk a^X/long the shore |

° for about' two miles in /one direction | ° and ' three in the yother j °    | sand ' all the yway.