NGỮ ÂM – ÂM VỊ HỌC

UNIT 11: ASPECTS OF CONNECTED SPEECH

Tên giảng viên: Nguyễn Thúy Nga

Trần Vũ Diễm Thúy
CONTENT

1. Assimilation
2. Elision
3. Linking

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1. ASSIMILATION

1. Definition
2. Position of Occurrence
3. Classification

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1. ASSIMILATION

1. Definition
• a change in pronunciation of one sound because of the
influence of a neighboring sound to be more alike.
In other words, a phoneme is realized differently as a result of
being near some other phoneme belonging to a neighboring
word.

• The purpose of assimilation: to ease the pronunciation.

In rapid, casual speech and usually affects consonants.

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1. ASSIMILATION

2. Position of Occurrence

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1. ASSIMILATION

3. Classification

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1. ASSIMILATION

3. Classification

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1. ASSIMILATION

3. Classification

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2. ELISION

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3. LINKING

When the preceding word ends in a consonant and the following

word
begins with a vowel, we link sounds together.

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