CAS LF 211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Personal Pronoun, Chapter 27
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Linking is a phenomenon we find in english. It consists of linking the consonant at the end of a word with the vowel of the next word: Far from it : the m" of from becomes the initial consonant of the word it" as if you were reading mit". The same phenomenon is observed with fire away or far away etc. In french the same thing occurs especially between the personal pronoun and the verbs starting with a vowel: > il coute bien is read : i-l -coute-bien. But it is not difficult to understand or reproduce because it is a kind of linking, except that the consonant at the endf of the word is not normally pronounced unless the next syllable starts with a vowel. But if the verb starts with a vowel, then we hear it as an initial : > on coute bien is read : on-n -coute-bien.
