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CONNECTED SPEECH

Eugenia Turnes Segundo Año Profesorado de Inglés Fonética Spanish

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CONNECTED SPEECH

IT is spoken language that's used in a continuous sequence, as in normal conversations, also called Connected discourse

Stress Patterns
- There are words with "full" forms, and "weak" forms, because English is a stressed timed language. And when we try to make the intervals between the stressed syllables equal, to give the phrase rhythm, we tend to take non-essential words.
ASPECTS
- Speech is a continuous stream of sounds, with no clear borders between them, so the aspects may help to explain why the Written English is different from the Spoken one.
- Intrusion and Linking
  - When two vowel sounds meet, we tend to insert an extra sound,/j/, /w/, or /j/,   to mark the transition sound between the two vowels. 
  - Word boundaries involving a consonant and a vowel are also linked, as we tend to drag final consonants to initial vowels or vice versa.
- Elision
  - It is the omission of a sound, a phoneme, in speech. It is common in casual conversation. Can be an unstressed vowel, consonant or syllable. 
Processes (CSP)
- Allophone:                       is an audibly distinct variant of a phoneme, such as the different pronunciation of the 't' sound in 'tar' and 'star'.                   
Consist of:
- Linking sounds
- Disappearing sounds
- Changing sounds
- Weak sounds