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1. 0:00Do you wait until the last minute to buy  gifts? Joey and Chandler do. Today we’re
2. 0:04taking a scene from Friends and  we’re doing a full pronunciation
3. 0:07analysis. What are the characteristics of  American English? You're going to improve
4. 0:12your listening comprehension and your English  pronunciation too. Here's the scene we’ll study.
5. 0:17Hi.
6. 0:18Hey, anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
7. 0:20No, nothing.
8. 0:21I hope she’s okay.
9. 0:23Yeah. I know exactly what she’s going through.
10. 0:26How do you know exactly what she’s going through?
11. 0:28She told us.
12. 0:33So what you got there Monica?
13. 0:35Just some stuff for the party.
14. 0:37Hey, what are you guys doing here? Aren’t  you supposed to be Christmas shopping?
15. 0:39You guys haven’t gotten your presents yet?
16. 0:42Tomorrow is Christmas Eve,  what are you going to do?
17. 0:45Don’t you have to be Claymation  to say stuff like that?
18. 0:47And now let’s do the full analysis.
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20. 0:54it’s free. It’s an illustrated reference  guide for you for all the American English
21. 0:59sounds including the phonetic symbols you need  to know. Link here and in the video description.
22. 1:06Hi.
23. 1:07Hey, anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
24. 1:09So, two common American greetings.  Hey is more common and I talked
25. 1:14about that in the video that we did two weeks ago,
26. 1:17another scene from this Friends episode.  Hi, hi, up down shape of stress. Hi.
27. 1:24Hi.
28. 1:25Hey.
29. 1:29Hey, hey. And then hey, a more common  greeting, hey, also up down shape of stress.
30. 1:36Hey
31. 1:37Hey, anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
32. 1:39So, this is a yes no question. So out pitch  is going up towards the end. That’s common
33. 1:45for yes no questions. So, we have a couple  stressed syllables, let’s listen for them.
34. 1:53Anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
35. 1:59Anyone hear from. So, we start higher and we come  low. Anyone. A little bit of up down on here from.
36. 2:10So, anyone and here. Anyone, three  syllable word with first syllable stress.
37. 2:17Anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
38. 2:23Phoebe yet? So, then we backed up. So, Phoebe,  also stressed but rather than going up down,
39. 2:31the stress here goes down up. Phoebe  yet? Because we’re heading up,
40. 2:37because of it being a yes no question. Phoebe yet?
41. 2:42Phoebe yet?
42. 2:46Phoebe yet? And we have a stop T there, he doesn’t  release that air stop T yet just an abrupt stop.
43. 2:56That is the most the most common pronunciation  of an ending T at the end of a thought group.
44. 3:01Let’s look at our linking and things that are  happening with the pronunciation in this phrase.
45. 3:07Anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
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50. 3:32Anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
51. 3:35Anyone hear from. Anyone hear from. So, do you  hear how I’m saying this. I’m not saying from.
52. 3:42I’m saying from, from. That’s exactly how Ross  said it so this word reduces. We change from
53. 3:49the uh as in butter vowel. From, to the  schwa. From, from, from. The schwa gets
54. 3:56absorbed by that M so you can think of there  being no vowel there. From, from, hear from.
55. 4:02Anyone hear from--
56. 4:07The word ‘hear’, if you look this up in a  dictionary, you’ll see it’s got the ih as
57. 4:11in sit vowel, but when that vowel is  followed by schwa R like it is here,
58. 4:16it changes, it becomes a vowel more like the  E vowel. So it’s not e but he-ee, hear, hear.
59. 4:25Anyone hear from--
60. 4:29Anyone hear from, anyone  hear from, anyone hear from.
61. 4:33See if you can copy that  smoothness. Anyone hear from.
62. 4:38Anyone hear from--
63. 4:42Phoebe yet?
64. 4:43Phoebe yet? So, the ph makes the F  sound, Phoebe. And both the stressed
65. 4:51and the unstressed syllables in this name  have the same vowel, that is the E vowel.
66. 4:56Phoebe, Phoebe, Phoebe yet?
67. 4:59Phoebe yet?
68. 5:03No, nothing.
69. 5:04No, nothing. Uhuuhuh. If we slow that down,  you would really hear that shape of stress,
70. 5:12no, nothing. So two up down shapes  of stress, we have the oh diphthong,
71. 5:20she makes a little bit relaxed, it’s not  no but more like no, no, no, no, nothing.
72. 5:30No, nothing.
73. 5:32Now here, the O, the letter O makes the uh as in  butter vowel. So, even though it looks like n-o,
74. 5:39n-o, the pronunciation would be the same,  that is not true. No, nothing. Now, t-h-i-n-g,
75. 5:48she does not make that an NG ending, she  doesn’t say nothing, she says nothing,
76. 5:53nothing. So, making the NG ending just  an N ending, ih as in sit n and nothing.
77. 6:03Nothing.
78. 6:07I hope she’s okay.
79. 6:08Okay, so Monica’s response. Four words,  two of them as stressed. Which do you
80. 6:16think are longer and up down shape of  stress or a down up shape of stress?
81. 6:22I hope she’s okay.
82. 6:27I hope she’s. Uhuhuh. Definitely hear that pitch  change. I hope she’s. And then we have okay. Also
83. 6:36an up down shape of stress there. So, we have hope  and K. Now, the word I, that’s the I diphthong.
84. 6:43It’s unstressed here, I don’t really hear  her pronouncing both of those sounds, I.
85. 6:50I hope she’s.
86. 6:53It’s more like a, a, I hope,  I hope, I hope she’s okay.
87. 6:58So, ,aybe more like the ah as in father said  very, very quickly. I hope, I hope she’s okay.
88. 7:05I hope she’s okay.
89. 7:10Hope she’s. So, let’s talk about  our p. This is a stop consonant,
90. 7:15hope. A stop consonant is a stop of air and  a release. But it’s really common in stop
91. 7:22consonants not to make the release when  the next sound is a consonant. Here the
92. 7:27next sound is the sh consonant. So it’s not  hope she’s. But it’s just hope she’s, hope,
93. 7:34my lips come together for the P but I skip  the release rather than that escape of air,
94. 7:40we go right into the sh consonant, hope she’s.  But there is that little tiny lift break, that’s
95. 7:48the stop of the stop consonant as my lips come  together. Hope she’s. I hope she’s, I hope she’s.
96. 7:56I hope she’s --
97. 7:57I hope she’s okay.
98. 7:59Okay, okay. This is a word that  can have first syllable stress,
99. 8:04okay. Or second syllable stress,  okay. She’s doing second.
100. 8:10she’s okay.
101. 8:14Yeah, I know exactly what she’s going through.
102. 8:16Yeah, yeah. Up down shape of stress
103. 8:21Yeah, --
104. 8:23I know exactly what she’s going through.
105. 8:26Yeah, I know exactly. So, more stress on  our verb. I know exactly on our adverb.
106. 8:36I know exactly --
107. 8:39I know exactly what she’s going through.
108. 8:41Going through, what she’s going through, then  one more stressed syllable on the verb going.
109. 8:49So everything links together  smoothly even the word yeah,
110. 8:53links right into the I, he doesn’t  do a break there, yeah, yeah I know.
111. 8:58Yeah, I know exactly what she’s going through.
112. 9:06Maybe you noticed this, maybe you  already know it but this word is
113. 9:10pronounced the exact same way as this word.  N consonant, O diphthong. Know. Yeah I know.
114. 9:19Yeah, I know --
115. 9:22exactly what she’s going through.
116. 9:24Exactly. Now this is an interesting word.  We have the letter X. That always makes two
117. 9:30sounds. In this case egz, G and Z, exactly. Then  we have a K, the letter C makes K, t-l-y. So,
118. 9:45when t comes between two consonants, it’s really  common in American Englsih to drop it and that’s
119. 9:50what he does, he does not say exactly. You  will find very few people pronouncing it that
120. 9:56way. Exactly, exactly with no T is a much more  common pronunciation. Exactly, I know exactly.
121. 10:06I know exactly.
122. 10:09I know exactly what she’s going through.
123. 10:11Exactly what she’s, what she’s, what she’s, what she’s.
124. 10:16Do you notice I’m not saying what she’s?  It’s a very quick stop. It’s an unstressed word
125. 10:22said very quickly. What she’s, what she’s,  what she’s, what, what. I’m debating, do I
126. 10:29want to write that with a schwa, what, what or  uh as in butter, what, what. Let’s listen again.
127. 10:36I know exactly what she’s --
128. 10:40I think I’m going to write it with the  schwa, I think it’s just, there’s not much
129. 10:44of a vowel there but what, what, what, what  she’s, what she’s. What she’s, what she’s.
130. 10:48what she’s --
131. 10:51going through.
132. 10:52Going through, going through. So one  peak of stress and the rest of the
133. 10:58sentence just comes as the intonation drops  off. Now, Rachel up here took an IG ending,
134. 11:04ing ending and made it an IN ending. He's  doing that too, rather than saying going,
135. 11:10he’s saying goin’, goin’. Unstressed syllable  as it as in sit and going through, going, going,
136. 11:17going through. Through, this word can be tricky,  we have an unvoiced th with an R. now the tongue
137. 11:24does have to come through, the teeth here. But  it’s just the very tip. Make sure there’s not
138. 11:30tension so the air can just flow really freely.  Going through, going through, th, th, th, through.
139. 11:38going through.
140. 11:42And all of these letters o-u-g-h just  make the ooh vowel. Going through.
141. 11:48going through.
142. 11:52How do you know --
143. 11:54How do you know. She’s stressing  you, we see that with a hand gesture,
144. 11:58how do, how do you know. A little bit  of stress on our question word. That’s
145. 12:05really typical to have the question  word be stressed. How do you know?
146. 12:10How do you know --
147. 12:12How do you know, how do you know. So  do and more said a little bit more
148. 12:19quickly but all of this really links together  smoothly. How do you know, how do you know.
149. 12:24How do you know --
150. 12:28Exactly what she’s going through?
151. 12:29Know exactly. So, we have the oh diphthong,
152. 12:35the ih as in sit vowel. Know exactly. It can help  you think a w glide consonant between the two to
153. 12:45help you link those smoothly. Know exactly.  Now, wait. Is she saying the T in exactly?
154. 12:55Exactly --
155. 12:59Exactly, exactly, no, she doesn’t. Like  I said, that’s really uncommon. I only
156. 13:04know one person our of everybody  I know who says that T. Exactly.
157. 13:09Exactly --
158. 13:12What she’s going through.
159. 13:13Exactly what she’s going through? Exactly.
160. 13:18Stress on the middle syllable there. How do  you know exactly what she’s going through?
161. 13:27How do you know exactly what she’s going through?
162. 13:30Exactly what she’s going through. So, what  she’s again unstressed said quickly stop T,
163. 13:39what she’s, what she’s, what  she’s, what she’s going through.
164. 13:42exactly what she’s going through?
165. 13:48Now, Monica does not make this goin’,
166. 13:52she makes it going with an ng consonant.  So, when we have an ng consonant, ih as
167. 13:58in sit ng. This NG sound actually changes the  vowel sound. So, it actually sounds more like
168. 14:07e, going, going, rather than e, e.  So if we change the NG to an N,
169. 14:15then the vowel stays ih as in sit, it doesn’t  change goin. But if we don’t, then the vowel
170. 14:22does change even though the dictionary won’t say  this. The American habit is to make ih as in sit
171. 14:29vowel NG actually becomes E vowel NG going  going, going, going through, going through.
172. 14:36Going through --
173. 14:40Again, through, tricky word, unvoiced  th, bring the tongue tip lightly through,
174. 14:48r consonant, ooh vowel, going through.
175. 14:51Going through --
176. 14:55She told us.
177. 14:56Okay, his response, three words, one  of them is stressed, which is it?
178. 15:02She told us.
179. 15:03She told us. Pretty clear there, dadada.  It’s like what you want to make a gesture
180. 15:14on. Dadada. She told us. She told us. Higher  pitch, change in pitch a little longer. She
181. 15:21told us. Now this word does start with a true  T. The rule is a t is a true T if it starts a
182. 15:29stressed syllable. So here it does. Told us. Let’s  look at the word told in IPA. We have T consonant,
183. 15:37O diphthong L-D. Now, this is a dark L because  it comes after a dipthong And this L does change
184. 15:47the diphthong, it’s to, told but it’s told. It’s  almost like one sound. You can maybe think of it
185. 15:57as an awe as in law, that’s just a little bit  darker so the tongue shifts back a little bit,
186. 16:05it lifts a little bit, lips round a  little bit, uhl, uhl, uhl, told. She
187. 16:13told us.And the D links into the u as in  butter vowel, told us [flap], told us.
188. 16:22Told us.
189. 16:26Told us, told us. And a little bit a stronger  T and a stronger D because he’s stressing this
190. 16:34word. She told us. So, usually when we say I  know exactly what she’s going through. That's
191. 16:41because we have also gone through that. We  have experienced that or experienced something
192. 16:47similar. So, gone through means to experience  something. And Joey has not experienced what Phoebe
193. 16:54is experiencing. In this Episode, Phoebe is maybe  going to meet her father for the first time. This
194. 17:01has not happened to Joey. So, when Joey says I  know exactly what she’s going through, it makes it
195. 17:07sound like the same thing happened to him. Monica  calls him out on that. Of course, he doesn’t know
196. 17:13that but then he says, well I know that because  she told us that. It’s not how we would normally
197. 17:19use exactly what she’s going through.which  is why it’s a joke and everyone laughs.
198. 17:25She told us.
199. 17:33So what have you got there, Monica?
200. 17:35Okay, Chandler comes in, he’s  speaking fast, it’s a little unclear.
201. 17:40So what have you got there. So  we have some stress on what.
202. 17:46In a question, the question word is usually going  to be stressed just like here with how. So what do
203. 17:53you got there, Monica? So, Monica tagged on at  the end, it is stressed but because he’s making
204. 18:02his intonation go up, the stress goes down  up instead of up down like it normally does.
205. 18:11So what have you got there, Monica?
206. 18:16Okay, this is so unclear. So the word so is  not pronounced so with the O diphthong so
207. 18:25but it’s su. It's just the S sound, so what,  so what. Maybe you would write that S schwa.
208. 18:36The w consonant for what but then  really not the rest of that word,
209. 18:41so-ya, so-whya. Is more like what I’m hearing
210. 18:45So what have you got --
211. 18:52So what have you becomes to my ears  so-wuh and maybe uh? Let’s listen again.
212. 19:02So what have you got --
213. 19:10Yeah, So-ya, so, so-ya-su, so-ya. So I’m going  to write that with the Y consonant and the schwa.
214. 19:19So-ya, so-ya, so-ya. So what have you got there.  So what have you got there. So what have you
215. 19:25becomes so-ya, so-ya. The word have dropped  totally and the vowel in all of these three
216. 19:31words reduced to the schwa, so-ya, so-ya, so what  have you got there, so what have you got there.
217. 19:36So what have you got there --
218. 19:40All leading up to the longer word, the  more clear word, got. But that’s a stop T,
219. 19:46it’s not fully pronounced. Got there, got  there. That stop of air. That is the T there.
220. 19:55The letter O, ah as in father,  got, got, got there, got there.
221. 20:01So what have you got there --
222. 20:03So what have you got there, Monica?
223. 20:05So what have you got there, Monica? There begins  with a voiced th, it’s not stressed. You can get
224. 20:13by with not bringing your tongue tip through. You  can just touch the backs of the teeth [flap] with
225. 20:21your tongue rather than taking the time to  bring that through. [flap] there, there,
226. 20:25there, there. You’ll see it in IPA. Unvoiced  th, eh as in bed schwa R but the schwa R
227. 20:33does affect this vowel just like the dark L  affects to oh diphthong, the R or the schwa
228. 20:41R affects to eh vowel, not as much jaw drop  not the but the eh, there, eh, eh, eh, there.
229. 20:52So what have you got there, Monica?
230. 20:55This is one where you’ll really  have to ignore what you see,
231. 21:00what the black and white text is and just  go with what you hear and just try to
232. 21:08imitate that and have to simplify your mouth  movements so much to match his reductions,
233. 21:14to get through this sentence with the  same pacing, the same rhythm as Chandler
234. 21:19So what have you got there, Monica?
235. 21:25Just some stuff for the party.
236. 21:26Just some stuff for the party. Just some.  Stress on our first word. Just some stuff
237. 21:34for the party. She’s making her stress  go up, we have three stressed syllables.
238. 21:40Now, even though the word just is  stressed, the T is dropped. That’s
239. 21:44really common between two consonants even  in the stressed word like, exactly where
240. 21:50we drop that T because it comes between two  consonants. Just some, just some, just some.
241. 21:56Just some
242. 21:58Just some stuff for the party.
243. 21:59Also notice, it’s not some, it’s not stressed.  Some but it’s some, some, I would write that
244. 22:07with a schwa, I’m going to say that quickly, also  by the way, there’s not two S sounds here. Just
245. 22:13think of one S sound to link, just some, just  some, just some. Just some becomes just some.
246. 22:21Just some --
247. 22:24Just some stuff for the party.
248. 22:25Just some stuff for the. Now here again,  just like just some, when we drop the T,
249. 22:31we had two S’s. We have stuff for, two F’s,  we’re going to link that with a single F.
250. 22:38Stuff for, stuff for, stuff for. So we have the  uh as in butter in stuff and in the word for,
251. 22:45that reduces to schwa R so it’s not for but it’s  for, for. For the. These two words become for the,
252. 22:54for the, for the. And remember, this is a voiced  th so you don’t need to bring your tongue tip
253. 22:59through because it’s unstressed. For the, for  the, for the. Stuff for the, stuff for the.
254. 23:06Stuff for the --
255. 23:08Stuff for the party.
256. 23:09Party, party. Do you hear a true  T in that word? Party. I don’t.
257. 23:18That’s because the T after an R before a vowel  or diphthong is a flap T and that sounds like
258. 23:24the American D between two vowels in English.  Party [flap], flap of the tongue. Party. Party.
259. 23:33Party.
260. 23:36So, everything links together really smoothly,  we have some reductions, we have a flap T.
261. 23:42Just some stuff for the party.
262. 23:47Hey, what are you guys doing here?
263. 23:49Hey, what are you guys doing here? Two stress  words are question words. What and do. The
264. 23:57other word said really, really quickly.  Instead of hey, it’s more like hey, hey.
265. 24:02Hey, what do you guys --
266. 24:06You almost don’t even hear it. Hey, hey,  hey. I do hear it. I wrote it when I was
267. 24:10sriting out the transcript but it’s so subtle,  so fast. Hey, hey, hey, hey. What are you guys
268. 24:17Hey, what are you guys --
269. 24:21Hey, what are you guys. So we have the  word R, this is going to reduce to schwa r
270. 24:29and the T comes between two vowels so that  becomes a flap T. What are, what are. The
271. 24:37word you said really quickly attached to the word  are, attached to the word guys. What are you guys.
272. 24:46What are you guys --
273. 24:50What are you guys. what are you guys,  what are you guys. Can you do that that
274. 24:57quickly? It’s like you throw your arm  up and on what and then you just let
275. 25:01the rest of the words fly out quickly.  What are you guys, what are you guys.
276. 25:07What are you guys --
277. 25:10None of those are stressed. We do not want  to say what are you guys, uh, uh. We don’t
278. 25:17want that up down shape of the voice, we don’t  want to length. It’s fast. What are you guys.
279. 25:22What are you guys --
280. 25:26Doing here?
281. 25:26Doing here. Doing here. Now again, we an ING  ending he does not change it. So think of it
282. 25:35as ending in eng, doing, doing, doing here.  Doing here. Alright this is interesting. Now
283. 25:43we have the word here also with the ih  as in sit this time followed by schwa R
284. 25:49so this was ih as in sit followed by ng changes  to the E. That happens in this combination too.
285. 25:58Ih as in sit followed by schwa R becomes  more like an e vowel. Doing here, doing here.
286. 26:09Doing here?
287. 26:12Aren’t you supposed to be Christmas shopping?
288. 26:14Aren’t you supposed to be Christmas shopping?  So, the word aren’t, I basically don’t hear that,
289. 26:19it’s so mumbled. You can just think that tiny  little throat sound. Aren’t you supposed to be.
290. 26:27Aren’t you supposed to be --
291. 26:32Supposed to be. So we have the word supposed  feels like two syllables with second
292. 26:37syllable stress. Supposed. But actually, we  drop the first vowel so it becomes just one
293. 26:45syllable beginning with an SP cluster. Spo,  spo and it is stressed. Now, supposed to.
294. 26:54There is a shortcut we do with this, let’s write  out what the all the sounds would be. Supposed to.
295. 27:04Because the word to is pretty much always going to  reduce. Supposed to. But that’s not what he says.
296. 27:12You supposed to --
297. 27:15Supposed to. He says supposed to  not spouzd to. So, what happens?
298. 27:21Basically, supposed to, we drop  the ZD, we make it instead an S.
299. 27:27Supposed to, supposed to. And that’s how we  pronounce supposed to, supposed to, supposed to
300. 27:36You supposed to --
301. 27:40Er,er ,er. Are you, are you spo. Are  you supposed to, are you supposed to.
302. 27:46Aren’t you supposed to be. So we have  two really quick unstressed syllables
303. 27:51then one stressed syllable, supposed  then two more unstressed. To be, to be.
304. 27:58Aren’t you supposed to be. Aren’t you  supposed to be. Aren’t you supposed to be.
305. 28:02Aren’t you supposed to be.
306. 28:06Christmas shopping?
307. 28:07It’s a yes no question so he’s making his  intonation go up so now it’s changing so
308. 28:14that our stressed syllables are going  down and up. Christmas shopping?
309. 28:22And those are our stressed syllables. Christmas,  Christ-mas. Do you notice we dropped that T?
310. 28:29That’s because it comes between  two consonants. Christmas shopping?
311. 28:35Christmas shopping?
312. 28:41So, we’re linking an S to an SH. I think  you could get away with dropping this
313. 28:47but I think he does do it very lightly  and very quickly. Christmas shopping?
314. 28:54Christmas shopping?
315. 28:59Shopping? Shopping? I’m hearing  in instead of ing. That means
316. 29:05he dropped the NG sound and turned it  into an n sound. Shoppin, shoppin’?
317. 29:11Shopping?
318. 29:15You guys haven’t gotten your presents yet?
319. 29:17You guys haven’t gotten your presents yet? I  can’t hardly make my voice that high right now?
320. 29:24A higher pitch shows more energy,
321. 29:27a little bit of tension, she cannot believe  that they haven’t done Christmas shopping yet.
322. 29:33You guys haven’t gotten your presents yet?
323. 29:40So again, this is a yes no question and  her intonation is going up at the end.
324. 29:46You guys, you guys haven’t gotten, a little  bit on gotten, your presents yet and then
325. 29:55it’s going up so most of our stress is  on the word presents. Pre, presents yet?
326. 30:02You guys haven’t gotten your presents yet?
327. 30:10And she does do a really light release of that t.
328. 30:14Your presents yet?
329. 30:19So we have a s, ending s followed by y just like  in the word this, I’m sorry, in the phrase this
330. 30:28year which was in the scene we studied two weeks  ago here. This year, linked with sort of an sh
331. 30:36sound this year. I’m hearing presents yet linking  with a little bit of an sh or maybe even a CH
332. 30:46sound which is written with the T and then the sh  sound which makes sense because we got a t here.
333. 30:53So, a little bit of a sound  change happening on that link
334. 30:58Your presents yet?
335. 31:02You guys haven’t gotten. Okay, so  we have a couple stops here, haven’t
336. 31:08gotten, got’n. So when we have t schwa  n like we do at the end of this word.
337. 31:16Even though the sound before is a vowel and  a t between two vowels is usually a flap T,
338. 31:21there is an exception. When we have T schwa  N, that T is a stop T. So, it’s not gotten,
339. 31:27it’s not gotten but it’s gotten, gotten, gotten.  That’s going to be the most common pronunciation.
340. 31:35Haven’t gotten, haven’t gotten.
341. 31:37Haven’t gotten --
342. 31:41Your presents yet?
343. 31:42Haven’t gotten your, haven’t gotten your, your,  your, your. The word your becomes your reduces
344. 31:50said quickly, you don’t need to try to make a  vowel there at all, just Y sound R sound, your .
345. 31:57Haven’t gotten your --
346. 32:00presents yet?
347. 32:01Also notice in the word presents, this  letter s makes a z sound. Pres, pres,
348. 32:07presents. And it might help you to think of  this as being an I, I’m not sure, it’s a schwa.
349. 32:14So, don’t do ents but ents,  ents, presents. Presents yet?
350. 32:20Presents yet?
351. 32:24Tomorrow is Christmas Eve.
352. 32:25Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. Three stressed  syllables there. Tomorrow is Christmas
353. 32:36Eve. All with that up down shape of stress,  more length. Notice this word is not tomorrow
354. 32:44but it’s to. Always make that a schwa. To, to,  tomorrow. Tomorrow is Christmas. Dropped T,
355. 32:54Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve.  Everything linked together.
356. 32:59Tomorrow is Christmas Eve.
357. 33:04What are you going to do?
358. 33:05What are you going to do? Okay, so  again like I said, the question word
359. 33:11is stressed. What are you going to do? And  then our verb is stressed. The other words
360. 33:19said quickly, it is not what are  you going to do. Oh my goodness,
361. 33:25no, that is all syllables, all words  stressed but it’s what are you gonna.
362. 33:31What are you going to --
363. 33:35What are you going to. These  words are all lower in pitch,
364. 33:39they’re just coming down from  the what, leading up to the do,
365. 33:43the word are reduces, what are, what are, what  are. And that’s a flap T linking. Water, water
366. 33:51What are you going to --
367. 33:55What are you going to. So the word you said  really quickly, she doesn’t reduce the vowel,
368. 34:01it could be ya. What are ya but she says what are  you, what are you, what are you. Going to, gonna.
369. 34:07What are you gonna. What are you gonna do?
370. 34:12What are you going to do?
371. 34:17Don’t you have to be Claymation  to say stuff like that?
372. 34:20So, her pitch is high, she’s panicked about  Christmas Eve. Chandler makes a joke about
373. 34:26Claymation. What is Claymation? It’s this way  of making video that uses stop motion. You have
374. 34:33a figurine, you move it slightly, you take  a picture of it, you move it slightly again,
375. 34:37you take another picture of it. And we have some  very famous popular Christmas specials, you’re
376. 34:44probably seen some of them that use Claymation  and in the Christmas special, there’s always
377. 34:49something intense happening, we have to save the  day and so that’s why he is making fun of her,
378. 34:56don’t you have to be Claymation to say stuff  llike that, her panic about Christmas Eve.
379. 35:02Don’t you have to be Claymation  to say stuff like that?
380. 35:12Don’t you have to be. Don’t you have  to be. So we have stress on don’t
381. 35:17and no more stress until Claymation. So you have  to be. We don’t really have longer syllables,
382. 35:24we don’t really have it up down or  down up but all feeling unstressed
383. 35:30Don’t you have to be --
384. 35:34Don’t you. It’s pretty common for an ending T  to mix with a beginning Y to make a CH sound
385. 35:41and that’s what’s happening here.  Don’t you, don’t you, don’t you.
386. 35:45Don’t you have to be --
387. 35:49Except he’s not saying you, is he?  He’s saying yu. He does reduce the
388. 35:54vowel to the schwa. Don’t  you, don’t you, don’t you.
389. 35:57Don’t you have to be --
390. 35:59Don’t you have. Don’t you have. We’re dropping  the H. Don’t you have to be, don’t you have to.
391. 36:09Pretty confusing but we go right from  the schwa into the ah smooth transition
392. 36:16and then we have the V consonant.  Don’t you have. Don’t you have to.
393. 36:20Don’t you --
394. 36:23Then the word to reduces. It’s T schwa, Don’t  you have to be. Now, V followed by T have to,
395. 36:34often becomes haf-to. So you can make that an  f. Don’t you have to be. Don’t you have to be.
396. 36:41Don’t you have to be --
397. 36:45Claymation.
398. 36:46Claymation. Clay. Up down, clay-mation. So he
399. 36:52sort of stressing clay. Clay. Even  though the most stressed syllable is
400. 36:59may, mation. Claymation. And he’s making  this one go up because it’s a rhetorical
401. 37:06yes no question. He doesn’t actually expect  her to answer it but it is a yes no question.
402. 37:11Claymation --
403. 37:15to say stuff like that.
404. 37:16Claymation, claymation to say  stuff like that. Say. Again,
405. 37:22stress but it’s more of a down up  because of it being a yes no question
406. 37:27Claymation to say stuff like that.
407. 37:34Claymation to say, claymation to say.
408. 37:39To, hmm, no it’s not to. It’s more of a d schwa  claymation to, mation to, claymation to say.
409. 37:48Claymation to say --
410. 37:53The t-I-o-n ending here ma-tion  is sh schwa n. Claymation.
411. 38:01Claymation --
412. 38:04Claymation to say stuff like that.
413. 38:06To say stuff like that. To say  stuff like that. And again,
414. 38:10a little bit of stress on that  but it’s more of a down up.
415. 38:14to say stuff like that.
416. 38:19And maybe a super light release  of a true T there. That, that.
417. 38:24That --
418. 38:28Let’s listen to the whole  conversation one more time
419. 38:31Hi.
420. 38:32Hey, anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
421. 38:35No, nothing.
422. 38:35I hope she’s okay.
423. 38:37Yeah. I know exactly what she’s going through.
424. 38:40How do you know exactly what she’s going through?
425. 38:42She told us.
426. 38:47So what you got there Monica?
427. 38:49Just some stuff for the party.
428. 38:51Hey, what are you guys doing here? Aren’t  you supposed to be Christmas shopping?
429. 38:53You guys haven’t gotten your presents  yet? Tomorrow is Christmas Eve,
430. 38:57what are you going to do?
431. 38:59Don’t you have to be Claymation  to say stuff like that?
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