[14] ASPECTS OF CONNECTED SPEECH

We string together a series of words in a ____ stream that we call connected speech

We have already considered an example of the effect of delay when we examined the process of ______ in creating allophones of vowels

We have already considered an example of the effect of delay when we examined the process of nasalization in creating allophones of vowels. This is delay in _____ _________

____________ : The pronunciation of connected words is particularly prone to alteration across word boundaries, i.e. where one word meets another immediately following word

Individual target articulations are nearly always affected by the articulation of adjacent segments

One prominent type of coarticulation is the process of ______

_______ takes place when one speech segment is transposed into another owing to the influence of a neighboring segment within the same word

____ of alveolards when they occur in close proximity to dental fricatives

De-voicing of word-final consonants is another example of a/an the process of ______

• assimilation
• elision
• linking

If Cf (single final cons) change to become like Ci (single initial cons) in some way, then the assimilation is called ______

• regressive
• progressive