Plosives 1

Spitting after you enunciate

Spitting before you enunciate

Spitting while you enunciate

Watch the scene from Friends and answer: What is the mark of a good actor?

Plosives

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The words and expressions underlined illustrate allophonic variants of plosives. Which ones can you name and describe? 1. Joey: We’ve got to find the rest of the platoon. 2. Richard: Forget about the platoon. The platoon is gone! 3. Joey: What? 4. Richard: The platoon is dead. Face the facts, Tony! 5. Joey: So what are we going to do? We have no reinforcements, no food. 6. Richard: No, there’s some food in the basement. I saw potatoes and some dry pasta. 7. Director: Hang on a minute. Joey, you keep touching your face. Is something wrong? 8. Joey: No. No. I thought it might be kind of a cool character thing. You know, he’s a face toucher. 9. Director: I don’t think so! Let’s take it back to Richard’s last lines. Action! 10. Richard: We may not have any weapons, but we still have food. In the basement I saw potatoes and some dry pasta… and a few tins of tuna.

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Which allophonic variants of plosives do NOT appear in this extract? 1. Joey: We’ve got to find the rest of the platoon. 2. Richard: Forget about the platoon. The platoon is gone! 3. Joey: What? 4. Richard: The platoon is dead. Face the facts, Tony! 5. Joey: So what are we going to do? We have no reinforcements, no food. 6. Richard: No, there’s some food in the basement. I saw potatoes and some dry pasta. 7. Director: Hang on a minute. Joey, you keep touching your face. Is something wrong? 8. Joey: No. No. I thought it might be kind of a cool character thing. You know, he’s a face toucher. 9. Director: I don’t think so! Let’s take it back to Richard’s last lines. Action! 10. Richard: We may not have any weapons, but we still have food. In the basement I saw potatoes and some dry pasta… and a few tins of tuna.

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The words and expressions underlined illustrate allophonic variants of plosives. Which ones can you name and describe? Which underlined phrase is wrongly produced in the fragment ? Why?

1. Richard: Joey, can you go through these lines with me? 2. Joey: Oh, man. They just re-did my make-up. 3. Richard: Just the last two pages. 4. Richard: I found the picture 5. Joey: The picture? What picture? 6. Richard: Could you lower your script? I need to see your face, so I can play off your reaction 7. Joey: Ok. Look, I know you’re a great actor and play all those Shakespeare guys and stuff. But you are spitting all over me, man! 8. Richard: Of course I am! 9. Joey: You know you’ve been spitting on me? 10.Richard: That’s what real actors do! Enunciation is the mark of a good actor. And when you enunciate, you spit! 11.Joey: Wow. Didn’t know that. Thanks! Ok, Ok. Check it out! Picture? What picture?

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Write a narrow transcription of the last extract. 1. Director: Action! 2. Richard: I found the picture! 3. Joey: What picture? 4. Richard: A picture of my wife. In your pack! 5. Joey: You went through my personal property? 6. Richard: Why do you have a picture of Paulette in your pack? 7. Joey: Because we were lovers… for two years! 8. Director: Cut! 9. Joey: Great scene, huh!? 10.Richard: You´re awesome.. and in that last speech.. you soaked me!