PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

Linking & Linking /r/

PRESENTER: EVIE NISHA SAHATHEVAN

LINKING When we say a sentence in English, we join or "link" words to each other. Because of this linking, the words in a sentence do not always sound the same as when we say them individually. If you recognize and use linking, two things will happen: - You will understand other people more easily - Other people will understand you more easily

Three types of linking:

Vowel to vowel *We link words ending with a vowel sound to words beginning with a vowel sound.

Consonant to vowel * We link words ending with a consonant sound to words beginning with a vowel sound.
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Consonant to consonant * We link words ending with a consonant sound to words beginning with a vowel sound.
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Steed loves Emma becomes Steed lovesssemma. Peter yelled at me becomes Peter yelledddat me. The path that led home was dark becomes The pathat ledome was dark. An hour becomes Anour. I have a new door becomes I hava nudoor. Lets make candy becomes Lets makandy.

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oranges = twoWoranges Do it = doWit Who is = whoWis So am I = soWam I

What a fat dog! = wata fa(t) dog!

She just doesnt understand! = jus doesnt Take Raymond home please. = ta(k) raymond

Is the cake gone? = ca(k)gone?

LINKING /r/
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phenomenon of r-linking is based on the fact that, /r/ in syllable final position is not pronounced. car /k:/. Stir /st:/ Cheer /t/ Clever /klev/ Far /f/ Before /bf/

In British English, a final -R is silent, because it is not followed by a vowel, so TEACHER is pronounced /ti:t/. But if that word is followed by another word that begins with a vowel, then the R is followed by a vowel and so, it is pronounced: He's the new teacher of maths now, the final -R in TEACHER is pronounced "teacherofmaths": /hi:z nju: ti:tr v ms/ This final R that joins one word with the next is called a "linking R".

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takes place when a syllable ends with one of the following vowel sounds: /:/, /:/, /:/, //, or any of the diphthongs that finish with a schwa, e.g. /e/, // and //, and the next syllable starts with any vowel sound. e.g. ) Care about/ker bat/