LINKING SOUNDS

Consonants and vowel blends

 What’s up? /wuh tsup?

 ten hours a day /te naʊr zə deɪ/
 That’s what I thought/ /ðæts wʌ daɪ θɔːt/
Rule #1  What is it? /wʌ di zɪt/?
 It’s his anniversary. /ɪts hɪ zæn.ɪˈvɜː.sər.i/
 This is too much. / ðɪ sɪz tu mʌtʃ/
 I’m on the train./aɪ mɒn ðə treɪn/
 Forget about it. /fəˈɡe də ˈbaʊ dɪt/
 Same or Similar Sound

 Produce the sound a little bit longer

In English spelling is not equal to pronunciation.
Rule #2  this style => thistyle
 need to => needo/ neeto
 I think this song is about the singer’s black cat.
=> I think thisongisaboutthe singer’s blackat.
 Flap ‘t’ - ‘d’
vowel +t, d + vowel
r + t, d + vowel

Rule #3
 For example: daddy, party
 A lot of girls wouldn’t even notice, but I
am not a lot of girls.
 => A lot of girls wouldn’tevenotice, buti
am nota lotof girls.
 Unreleased Plosive Consonants
 Plosive consonants (t, d, p, b, k, g) + consonants: The sounds
can be unreleased.
 Unreleased: when you pronounce them, you need to speak it
half the sound and stop and move to the next sound.
For example: would be
Rule#4 (d: unreleased)

We allowed them to jump to the front of the line.

It’s a tough one.