Pronoun + Auxiliary Can’t IS HAS He’s Mightn’t ARE They’re Shan’t HAVE I’ve Wouldn’t HAD WOULD He’d Remember!. Weak contractions become strong when they are stressed: She’s nice, not y
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Contractions
Auxiliary + Negative Adv Pronoun + Auxiliary
Can’t
IS
HAS
He’s
Mightn’t
ARE
They’re
Shan’t
HAVE
I’ve
Wouldn’t
HAD
WOULD
He’d
Remember!
1 Weak contractions become strong when
they are stressed:
She’s nice, not you (Contrast)
You’ll forget, but we won’t (Contrast)
There’s Pam (Strong – Locative)
There’s a fly in my soup (Existential)
2 Negative contractions are strong because
they contain a content word, the adverb
not
3 Notice the vowels in the following words:
don’t and won’t (BVP exception)
.@9 in can’t & shan’t (BVP exception)
.H?.in we’re
.d? in they’re
.N9 in you’re
I’d
It’d She’d That’d There’d They’d We’d Who’d You’d
WILL
SHALL
He’ll I’ll She’ll That’ll They’ll We’ll What’ll You’ll Who’ll There’ll
Adapted from Avendaño Zúñiga, A &Ortíz Lira, H (1998) Practical English phonetics Santiago de Chile: UMSE.