A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 47: Colored Gold, Elision
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Assimilation: that boy - full transcription _ transcription with assimilation, good pan, ten players, that thing, that girl, good concert, ten cups, get those. Elision: we arrived the next day, when we reached paris, we stopped for lunch, we brought a lovely carved statuette, teachers use authentic texts to teach from, george the sixth"s throne. As the speaker pronounces one sound, they prepare their articulators to produce later sounds. This means that for speakers speaking at a normal rate, features from later sounds spill backwards and affect the production of earlier sounds. For example, the following phrases if produced at normal speaking ratge will result in the assimilated pronunciation if produced at normal speaking rate will result in the assimilated pronunciation shown. The t" emulates the p" in potato hop potato . Mad cat - can"t emulate mag kat. As well as making sounds share features in this way, speakers maintain speed and fluency during connected speech by dropping sounds.
