Phonology

The systematic rise and fall in the pitch of the voice during speech used in English to convey some emotional and grammatical meanings

• Intonation

• Rhythm

• Sentence stress

• Catenation

a combination of two vowel sounds said one after the other, as in the words ‘find’ and ‘fail’

• consonant

• vowel

• diphthong

• phoneme

The practice of leaving a sound out when you say a word or group of words

• assimilation

• elision

• catenation

• stress

The study of the pattern of speech sounds used in a particular language

• Phonemics

• Phonetics

• Phonology

A word or a part of a word that has only one vowel sound.

• Syllable

• Syllabus

• phoneme

A sound change where some phonemes (typically consonants or vowels) change to be more similar to other nearby sounds.

• catenation

• assimilation

• elision

• linking

A consonant sound at the end of one word joins with a vowel sound at the beginning of the next word.

• Catenation

• Assimilation

• Linking

• Elision