Phonetics Final

joining two or more words together in the creation of an utterance; phonetic identity of words often changes

when a word is pronounced carefully as a single item

overlapping of the articulators during speech; not enough time in speech to produce all sounds

phonemes take on the characteristics of neighboring phonemes--- results from co-articulation

omission of a phoneme in a word during speech

addition of a phoneme in a word during speech

full vowel changes to a central vowel's schwa or schwar as a result of connected speech

beyond the boundaries of individual speech sound segments (affect the whole utterance)
- stress in 2 or more syllable words, sentences/connected speech
- pausing
- loudness
- intonation, rhythm

the most prominent stress of a word (greatest emphasis)

simplifications used by children not capable of producing adult speech patterns