phonetics & phonology: song: next year

NEXT YEAR

Two door cinema club

I don't know where I am going to rest my head tonight

So I won't promise that I'll speak to you today

But if I ever find

Another place

A better time

For that moment I was never what I am

Take to me to where you are

What you've become

And what you will do when I am gone

I won't forget

I won't forget.

Maybe someday You'll be

somewhereTalking to me As if you knew me Saying I'll be home

fornext year, darling I'll be home for next

year

In between the lines Is the only place you'll find What you're missing but you didn't know was there So when I say goodbye You must do your best to try And forgive me this weakness This weakness 'Cause I don't know what to say Another day Another excuse to be sent your way Another day Another year.

Maybe someday You'll be somewhere Talking to me As if you knew me Saying I'll be home for next year,

darling I'll be home for next year And maybe sometime In a long time You'll remember What I had said there I said I'll be home for next year,

darling I'll be home for next year

If You Think of me I will think of you.

Maybe someday

You'll be somewhere

Talking to me

As if you knew me

Saying I'll be home for next year, darling

I'll be home for next year

Maybe sometime

In a long time

You'll remember

What I had said there

I said

I'll be home for next year

Maybe someday You'll be somewhere Talking to me As if you knew me Saying I'll be home for next year, darling I'll be home for next year.

Examples of different vowel sounds

/i:/Speak /spi:k/Me /mi:/Between  /bɪ’twi:n/Weakness /’wi:knəs/

/ɪ/Excuse /ɪk’skju:z/Think /θɪŋk/Going /’ gəʊɪŋ/Become /bɪ’kʌm/

/ə/Where /weəʳ/Ever /’ evəʳ/Better /’ betəʳ/Another /ə’nʌðəʳ/

/ʊ/Know /nəʊ/So /səʊ/You’ve /jʊv/You’ll /jʊl/

/e/Rest /rest/Head /hed/When /wen/Sent /sent/

Examples of dipthongs in words

/eɪ/Place /pleɪs/Take /teɪk/Way /weɪ/Say /seɪ/

/aɪ/Time /taɪm/Find /faɪnd/Lines /laɪnz/Tonight /tə’naɪt/

/əʊ/Only /’ əʊnlɪ/Home /həʊm/Won’t /wəʊnt/Don’t /dəʊnt/

/eəʳ/Where /weəʳ/There /ðeəʳ/Somewhere /’ sʌmweəʳ/

/ɪəʳ/Year /’ jɪəʳ/

Examples of weak and strong forms- Weak:

I don’t know where I am going to rest my head tonight

Is the only place you’ll find

But if I ever find

/əm/

/ɪz/

/bət/

- Strong:

Take me to where you are

Talking to me

For that moment I was never what I am

/ɑ:ʳ/

/mi:/

/æm/

Examples of linking

I don’t know where I am going to rest my head tonight

So, when I won’t promise that I’ll speak to you today

But if I ever find

For that moment I was never what I am

/weəʳ aɪ /

/ ðət aɪl/

/ bət ɪf aɪ/

/ məʊmənt aɪ/ /wət aɪ/

And what you will do when I am gone

As if you knew me

So when I say goodbye

‘Cause I don’t know what to say

/wen aɪ /

/Əz ɪf/

/wen aɪ /

/kɒz aɪ /

You must to your best to try

Another excuse to be sent your way

/best tə /

 /ə’nʌðəʳ ɪk’skju:z /