Modifications of Phonemes in Connected Speech

Every speech sound pronounced in isolation has ... stages of articulation.

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Vowel alternations. Distinction of irregular verbal forms:

• rise – raise

• teach – taught – taught

• mouse – mice

• class – classify

Consonant alternations. Distinction of parts of speech in etymologically correlated words:

• house – house

• send – sent

• speak – speech

• lend – lent

The phonetic process that affects English vowels in connected speech called …

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Find an example of elision

• waste paper [ˏweɪs ʹpeɪpə]

• six of the best [ʹsiks ə ðəˎbest]

• two pounds of pears [ʹtu: ʹpaʊnz əˎpeəz]

• trapped by [ʹtræp ˎbaɪ]

The ... produces no audible sound.

• The on-glide

• The hold stage

• The medial stage

• The off-glide

… reduction affects both long and short vowels (can [kæn – kən]).

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In rapid colloquial speech certain notional words may lose some of their sounds (vowels and consonants). This phenomenon is called ...

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It is the process of simplification by which a speech sound is influenced by the surrounding sounds to make them more similar

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Assimilation  can  be  of  three  types  as  far  as  its  direction  is  concerned:

• progressive,  regressive,  double

• complete,  partial,  intermediate

• derivational, inflectional, grammatical

• double, partial, grammatical