Connected Speech - Linking Sounds

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Linking sounds

Prof. Andrea Bernal Hernández


Today’s goals

1. To check your project advance


2. To identify and apply the principles to do
consonant-to-consonant linkings and vowel-to-
vowel linkings
Linking the same final and initial consonant
sound
1. Let’s watch and practice with the examples (2:08
2. Let’s practice identify and pronounce the linkings in the next examples:
3. You could come more frequently
4. Don’t forget to put tomatoes in the soup
5. Please, stop putting words in my mouth.
6. They keep paying the taxes late

Exception: don’t link the same affricate initial


Now is your turn, how many examples can you
think of in 10 minutes?
Linking similar consonant sounds

1. Let’s watch and practice with the examples


2. Let’s practice identify and pronounce the linkings in the next examples

1.th (voiced) and th (unvoiced): You loathe thin spaghetti

2. /K/ and /g/: I think going out now is dangerous

2. /p/ and /b/: They keep buying useless stuff

3. /f/ and /v/: They surf very well

4. /t/ and /d/: I put down the bag


Now is your turn, how many examples can you
think of in 10 minutes?
Linking two vowel sounds

1. Let’s watch and practice with the examples


2. Let’s practice, identify and pronounce the linkings in the next examples
● Linking two vowels with /w/ when a word ends in /u/ or a diphthong
finishing in /ʊ/ You and me, there’s a long queue at the station.
● Linking two vowels with /j/ when a word ends in /i/ or a diphthong finishing in / ɪ/ like in “May I
go now?
● Intrusive /r/ to link vowels: when the first word ends in schaw, /ɑ/ or /
ɔ/ like in straw and paper, appear a ghost, spa or gym
1. Let’s practice identify and pronounce the linkings in the next examples

1. He ate too much


2. She has bought many apples
3. I’d like some tea and sugar
4. Try again
5. I’ll take two apples
6. I go out fast
7. I don’t know each answer
Now is your turn, how many examples can you
think of in 10 minutes?
GO OUT OF THE MAZE!
Project work
Get together in the groups and add lines to your script. Remember to
applyall the cases of connected speech.

Assessment criteria

1. All members participate evenly


2. There is a phonetic analysis that includes transcription and sentence
stress
3. The group explains and uses color coding to identify or show diverse
examples of assimilations, elisions and linkings
4. There is an audio of the script were participants apply connected
speech accurately
5. The length of each intervention is at least of 2 minutes.
Homework:Project presentation
Remember you may invent what happened after part 1 of the project in the film scene or TV episode OR
you may create a dialog or monologue applying the cases of connected speech as well as sentence stress.
In a Power Point slide present the script, the phonetic transcription and its analysis identifying:

● Regular stress
● Emphatic stress
● 3 cases of assimilation
● 3 cases of elision
● 3 cases of linking consonants
● 3 cases of linking vowels
● 3 cases of linking consonant and vowels

The voice or video recording of the group applying the cases of connected speech presented in the script
by speaking following the script naturally. Upload the Power Point slides and the vocaroo voice recordin in
the folder in the platform

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