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    This document discusses 5 key features of connected speech: 1. Assimilation - When sounds in neighboring words influence each other, like "in Bath" becoming "in MATH". 2. Elision - The loss of sounds, usually consonants at the end of words, like "left back" becoming "lef bac". 3. Delayed plosion - A slight pause before consonants like "p, t, k" at the start of the next word, like "red dye" vs "red eye". 4. Catenation - Blending the end of one word into the start of the next, like "pick it up" becoming "pi ki tup

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    This document discusses 5 key features of connected speech: 1. Assimilation - When sounds in neighboring words influence each other, like "in Bath" becoming "in MATH". 2. Elision - The loss of sounds, usually consonants at the end of words, like "left back" becoming "lef bac". 3. Delayed plosion - A slight pause before consonants like "p, t, k" at the start of the next word, like "red dye" vs "red eye". 4. Catenation - Blending the end of one word into the start of the next, like "pick it up" becoming "pi ki tup

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    This document discusses 5 key features of connected speech: 1. Assimilation - When sounds in neighboring words influence each other, like "in Bath" becoming "in MATH". 2. Elision - The loss of sounds, usually consonants at the end of words, like "left back" becoming "lef bac". 3. Delayed plosion - A slight pause before consonants like "p, t, k" at the start of the next word, like "red dye" vs "red eye". 4. Catenation - Blending the end of one word into the start of the next, like "pick it up" becoming "pi ki tup

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    5 Features of Connected Speech

     Written by Keith Taylor


     Last updated on 28 January, 2022

    A look at assimilation, elision, delayed plosion, catenation and intrusion in


    connected speech.
    In spoken discourse the boundaries between words are very often not clear-
    cut. Words and sounds are lost and linked together in different ways to
    enable us to articulate with minimal movement.

    This is one of the reasons learners find spoken discourse more difficult to
    understand than written discourse. At higher levels it is often not a lack of
    vocabulary which prevents understanding, but lack of ability to deal with
    these features of connected speech. Native speakers are more able to
    use top-down processing to decide whether what they have heard is red
    dye or red eye.

    Here are some of the more common features of connected speech:

    1.Assimilation
    Assimilation occurs when a phoneme (sound) in one word causes a
    change in a sound in a neighbouring word. For example, try saying
    the following pairs of words:

     in Bath
     last year
     Hyde Park
    You’ll notice that the last sound of the first word changes in each
    case. The /n/ sound
    becomes /m/, /t/ becomes /tʃ/ and /d/ becomes /b/.

    2.Elision
    Elision is the loss of a phoneme, most commonly the last phoneme
    of a word, and most commonly the /t/ and /d/ sounds. Have a look
    at these examples:
     left back
     stand by
     looked back
     I must go
    In each case the last phoneme of the first word is elided (lost). In
    the most simple terms, the reason is that the time and effort
    required to change the mouth position from the /t/ to the /b/ sound
    (as in the first example) or the /t/ to the /g/ sound (as in the last
    example) is too great!

    3.Delayed plosion
    Our “red dye” and “red eye” is an example of this. To articulate “red
    dye”, we must take a very short pause before the /d/ sound.
    The /d/ is an example of a plosive, consonant sounds where the
    vocal tract stops all airflow. Other examples
    are /b/,/d/, /g/, /p/, /t/ and /k/. This pause before the plosive gives us
    the name of this feature, delayed plosion.

    Another example: the right tie (delay) – the right eye (no delay)

    4.Catenation
    In catenation the last consonant of the first word is joined to the
    vowel sound at the start of the second word. For example:

     pick it up – (learners will hear something like pi ki tup)


     what is it – (learners will hear something like wo ti zit)

    5.Intrusion
    Intrusion is what you might expect from the name – an extra sound
    “intrudes” into the spoken utternace. Try saying the following pairs
    of words:

     media event
     I always
     go away
    Do you hear the /r/ sound intruding after “media”, the /j/ sound
    intruding after “I” and the /w/ sound intruding after “go”?

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