QUANTITATIVE REDUCTION OF THE SOUNDS
Sounds [h] — no [h]
[h] is constrictive fricative, glottal, voiceless.
A s [h] occurs only in pre-vocalic positions it is the sound of breath passing between the vocal cords and out of the mouth which is already held really for the following vowel:
before [i:] the mouth is in the position for [i:],
before [u:] it is ready for [u:] and so on;
so there are many [h]-sounds in English because different types of friction will be heard for it in the sequence [hi:], [ha:], [hu:] and others.
1. Read the following words paying special attention to correct pronunciation.
[h] – hand, half, hat, head, hear, heart, heavy, hide, high, behind, anyhow, greenhouse, manhole, inhale, rehearse, coherent, household, beforehand
Silent h – heir, hour, honest, honor, vehicle, rhubarb, rhyme, rhythm, exhaust, exhibition, forehead, shepherd, silhouette, Birmingham, Blenheim, where, what, when,
[h] – no [h] – hand – and, hall – all, hear – ear, high – eye, hate – eight, heart – art, hair – air, heels – eels, heat - eat
2. Read the following sense-groups, mind the rhythm and intonation.
(a) a hammer; a heavy hammer; herself with a heavy hammer; hit herself with a heavy hammer; Hilda hit herself with a heavy hammer.
(b) the horn; the horn of the hunter; the horn of the hunter was heard; the horn of the hunter was heard on the hill.
3. Transcribe and intone the following sentences. Practise reading them in pairs.
[h] 1. Humble, hairy Herbert has his hand on his heart.2. Henry's horse has hurt his hoof in a hole while hunting.3. Henry helps him to hobble home. 4. It's not the hopping over hedges that hurts the horses' hooves; it's the hammer, hammer, hammer on the hard high road. 5. He is head over heels in love. 6. Our hands have met but not our hearts, our hands will never meet again. 7. A helicopter has hit Allen's house. 8. Andrew spent all his holiday in hospital. 9. Ellen's husband is ill in hospital. 10. I've hurt my hand and can't hold anything. 11. I've hurt my eye and can't see anything.
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