5 Connected Speech Secrets for Fast, Native English Pronunciation

WHAT IS CONNECTED SPEECH?

Connected speech means that when we speak a language, words have some
effect on each other. We do not always pronounce words completely separately
with a neat pause in between. In fact, many words affect each other when you
put them into phrases and sentences. The end sound of one word often
affects the beginning of the next word.
CONNECTED SPEECH INCLUDES MANY SUB-TOPICS
There are many different ways that connected speech happens. Sometimes
sounds are added, or omitted, or changed, in different ways.
Now you’ll learn a little bit about five different kinds of connected speech:
linking, intrustion, elision, assimilation and geminates.

LINKING
Linking happens when the end of one word blends into another. When the last
sound of a word is a consonant and the first sound of the next word is a
vowel, you get linking.
For example:

I want this orange –> thisorange

I want that orange –> thadorange
This afternoon –> thisafternoon
Is he busy? –> Isi busy?

INTRUSION
Intrustion means an additional sound “intrudes” or inserts itself between others.
It is often is a /j/ or /w/ or /r/ sound between two other vowel sounds.
For example:
He asked –> Heyasked
She answered –? Sheyanswered
Do it –> Dewit
Go out –> Gowout
Shoe on –> Shoewon