Features of connected speech

The pronunciation of a word with more respiratory energy or muscular force than other words in the same utterance

• juncture

• sentence stress

• vowel

• word stress

The variations in the pitch of a speaker’s voice used to convey or alter meaning

• intonation

• elision

• consonant

• Sentence stress

The process in continuous speech which connects the final sound of one word to the initial sound of the next

• juncture

• catenation

• linking

• assimilation

The pronunciation of a syllable with more respiratory energy or muscular force than other syllables in the same word

• intonation

• Sentence stress

• word stress

• linking

Occurs when a sound which would be present in a word spoken in isolation is omitted in connected speech. e.g. post the letter – old man

• intrustion

• elision

• inonation

• juncture

What happens to a sound when it is influenced by one of its neighbours. e.g. this ship - in public

• juncture

• elision

• assimilation

• catenation

The last consonant of the first word is joined to the vowel sound at the start of the second word. For example:

pick it up

• elision

• juncture

• catention

• assimilation

when an extra sound is added into the spoken utterance

• ellision

• catenation

• intrusion

• juncture

The intonation in ‘wh’ questions normally goes ________ at the end.

• up

• down

The intonation in ‘yes/no’ questions normally

goes ___________ at the end.

• up

• down