connected speech

Question 1

assimilation

Answer 1

how sounds modify each other when they meet, e.g. red wine becomes repwine

Question 2

elision

Answer 2

describes the disappearance of a sound. most common are /t/ and /d/ when they appear in a consonant cluster.

Question 3

juncture

Answer 3

features that may occur at the boundary between two words which make the boundary unambiguous and clear although speech is still connected. e.g. ice cream vs i scream, grey tapes vs great apes.

Question 4

cantenation

Answer 4

when the last consonant of the first word is joined to the first vowel of the next word, e.g. an apple sounds like napple.