1. Processes in Connected Speech David Deterding National Institute of Education

2. Reading David Deterding & Gloria Poedjosoedarmo (1998) The Sounds of English: Phonetics and Phonology for English Teachers in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Prentice Hall, pp. 130-139.

3. Weak Forms most function words have a weak form the strong form is rarely used wordstrong formweak form totu;t@ and&nd@n(d) at&t@t cank&nk@n ofQv@v

4. deletion in ordinary speech, many sounds get deleted the deletion follows strict rules

5. kinds of deletion /t, d/ /h/

6. deletion of /t/, /d/ /t/, /d/ tend to get deleted when the following conditions are met: –at the end of a syllable –preceded by a consonant –followed by a consonant

7. Examples last night [lA;snaIt] handbag [h&nb&g] Cold Storage [k@UlstO;rIdZ] restless [resl@s] next week [nekswi;k] find me [faInmI] hindsight [haInsaIt] best man [besm&n]

8. deletion of /h/ /h/ can be deleted after a consonant in unstressed syllables /h/ is usually deleted in non-initial function words: he, his, her

9. examples of /h/ deletion and he left [@ndIleft] from his pocket [fr@mIzpQkIt] at her mother [@t@mVD@]

10. Linking one egg [wVneg] two eggs [tu;wegz] three eggs [Tri;jegz] four eggs [fO;regz]

11. types of linking words beginning with a vowel are usually linked to the previous word can be: –consonant –/w/ (after close back vowels) –/j/ (after close front vowels) –/r/ (after words spelt with an ‘r’)

12. intrusive /r/ linking /r/ usually occurs when there is an ‘r’ in the spelling intrusive /r/ can occur when there is no ‘r’: –data analysis –Asia and Africa