Analyzing everyday speech

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in this American English pronunciation

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exercise we're going to study some

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conversation today it's going to be a

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Ben Franklin exercise where we analyze

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the speech together today's topic what

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did you do today

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great let's get started song what did

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you do today Tom what did you do today

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lots of interesting things happening

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here I noticed first of all that I've

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dropped the T here wedid what did what

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did you do

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I'm also noticing I'm getting more of a

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J sound here jew-jew what did you did

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jus so the D and the Y here are

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combining to make the J sound so we have

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one day jus what did you what did you

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what did you Tom what did you do today

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the other thing I noticed is that the T

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here is really more of a flap sound a

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dee doo de doo de doo today

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this is most definitely a schwa so we're

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reducing this unstressed syllable to be

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the schwa today today do today do today

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Tom