CONNECTED SPEECH

What is connected speech?

• Words or syllables are clipped, phrases run together and words are stressed differently that they would be in writing.

• Omission of sounds.

• Combination of two words.

Which term DO NOT correspond to connected speech?

• Assimilation

• Ellision

• Catenation

• Pronunciation

Assimilation is the general term in phonetics for the process by which a speech sound becomes similar or identical to a neighboring sound.

• True

• False

In Ellision the middle or end letter or syllable is eliminated, or two words are blended together and an apostrophe is inserted. Select an example of Ellision.

• Gonna- going to

• Jim's car

Select the correct definition of Catenation.

• Two or more syllables blended together.

• Speaker join words together. (last consonant of first word is joined to the first vowel of next word)

Intrusion is when two words are said together, an extra sound is sometimes placed between them in order to make them easier to say.

• True

• False

Select the phones that can be intruded.

• /a/ /l/

• /m/ /j/ /a/

• /j/ /w/ /r/

Select the correct definition of Weak Forms.

• Consonant sounds that become unstressed in connected speech and are often then pronounced as a schwa.

• Syllable sounds that become unstressed in connected speech and are often then pronounced as a schwa.