Assimilation

What is assimilation?

• Describes the disappearance of a sound
• Is the way how a sound modify other sound when they meet.

What is the assimilation of the sound /t/ in this sentence
Can you see that boy ?

• m
• p

/t/ assimilates to /k/ before:

• /k/ or /g/
• /k/ or /d/

 The sounds /k/ /g/ and /ŋ/ are:

• Alveolar
• Velar

Before /g/ or /k/ the sound /n/ can assimilate

• /p/
• /ŋ/

What is the assimilation of the sound /s/ in this sentence
I really love this shiny one over here. 

• /ʃ/
• /tʃ/

What is the sounds that assimilate like /dʒ/

• /d/ and /j/
• /b/ and /g/

What is the sounds that assimilate like /tʃ /

• /t/ and /z/
• /t/ and /j/