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Linking Pronunciation

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Linking
pronunciation
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▪ Linking is a pronunciation technique that allows the


speaker to smoothly say two or more words together. When
linked together the words sound like one continuous word.
Using linking sounds when speaking English can make
your speech sound much more fluent and natural.
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Consonant To Consonant Linking
Geminates: Double sounds

▪ red dress [redress]

▪ big gorilla [bigorilla]

▪ hot tomato [hotomato]

▪ feel lucky [feelucky]

▪ quiet town [quietown]

▪ *pink car [pinkar]

▪ *nice scarf [niscarf]


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Similar Consonant Sound Linking
Elision: Omitting sounds

▪ need to [neeto]

▪ sleep better [sleebetter]

▪ dark gray = [dargray]

▪ cheese sandwich = [cheesandwich]

▪ breath through = [breathrough]


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Consonant To Vowel Linking

▪ an elephant [anelephant]

▪ an apple [anapple]

▪ these are [theezare]

▪ Craig bought an apple. [Craig bough-ta–napple.]


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Vowel To Vowel Linking
Intrusion: Adding sounds

▪ two apples [twowapples]

▪ she asked [sheyasked]

▪ go out [gowout]

▪ see Anna [seeyAnna]


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Assimilation: changing sounds

▪ Instead of "sharing" part of a sound, the merged sounds are


pronounced as an entirely different sound. Two examples of
assimilation occur when the 't sound' /t/ or /d/ precede the 'y
sound' /y/.

▪ When the /t/ and /y/ assimilate, the sounds merge into the 'ch
sound' /ʧ/. This causes the phrase "don't you" /doʊntyu/ to be
pronounced as "donchou" /doʊnʧu/.
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▪ The /d/ assimilates with the /y/ and is pronounced as a 'j


sound' /ʤ/. This causes the phrase "did you" /dɪdyu/ to be
pronounced as "dijou" /dɪʤu/.
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▪ Did you?

▪ Do it.

▪ Diamond ring

▪ Orange juice

▪ Good news

▪ A big gift

▪ Keep an eye on you


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Examples

▪ There’s an apple in the tree.

▪ I ate an apple and a banana, too.

▪ There’s a big gorilla looking right at me.

▪ She asked for a glass of water.

▪ When Anna met Andrew she asked him to go on a date.

▪ I always sleep better when it’s dark.

▪ I need to see you right away.

▪ The sky was dark gray all day.

▪ I fell in the swimming pool and Amy fell in, too.

▪ These are delicious strawberries.


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