Features of Connected Speech

Features of Connected Speech

1. LINKING

   • Classical Linking
     • Consonant + Vowel
       • All of them
       • Linking /r/
     • Consonant + Consonant
       • Any except affricates
       • Holding: two plosives
       • Lengthening: same fricatives or same nasals (except ng)
   • Vowel + Vowel
     • Intrusives /r/, /j/, /w/

2. ASSIMILATION

   • Depending on which characteristics forces the change
     • Place
     • Manner
     • Voice
   • Depending on which Consonant affects which
     • Yod Coalescence
     • Regressive
     • Progressive

3. ELISION

   • Consonant elision
     • Glottalisation /t/
     • /t/ or /d/ in Consonant Clusters followed by a consonant
     • Complex Consonant Clusters
       • Deletion of middle plosive
     • Weak forms (of , and)
   • Vowel elision
     • Aspiration of initial /p/, /t/, /k/
     • Loss of /ə/, /i/ /u/ + liquids or nasals
   • COMPRESSION
     • A sound is reduced causing the loss of a syllable
     • Syllabic consonant changes to non-syllabic consonant
     • i: to i; u: to u; ai to a, au to a.
     • Weak vowels to semivowels