A Critical Review of English Education (36)

Since 35 days ago, we have picked out and been discussing the following sentence,

　This is a pen.

which unfortunately has long been stigmatized as a typical one of the most unexpected utterances in daily spoken English.

However, isn’t this kind of statement a mere echo of others―perhaps? What’s more, isn’t it possibly just a unilateral blanket opinion?

With this awareness of the issue, we have been executing “factor decomposition” as follows in pursuit of acquiring a more penetrating vision to locate the latent problems involved:

　imagination　usefulness　grammar　pronunciation

Since twenty-four days ago, we have mainly concentrated on the pronunciation factors.

　pronunciation (25)

First, there is often a “discrepancy” between a sentence’s “phonetic configuration” and its “syntactic structure.”

Today, we will consider the difference between “enchaînement” and “liaison.”

Watch the following video:
<http://raspberries.jp/linking3.mp4>

I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

For a treatment of the English indefinite article, see:
<https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiAqaD6k8_5AhWuG6YKHWdBAeUQFnoECA0QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tohoku-gakuin.ac.jp%2Fresearch%2Fjournal%2Fbk2011%2Fpdf%2Fbk2011no02_03.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0AKaSzj2fmoxe2E9bvFFaL>