Connected Speech

"The change in phoneme characteristics due to influence of a sound occurring later in the word"

• Regressive assimilation

• Coalescence

• Progressive assimilation

• 
  Linking /r/

"Sound change in which some phonemes change to be more similar to other nearby sounds". This concept refers to:

• 
  Variation

• 
  Assimilation

• 
  Dissimilation

• Insertion

When the phrase "orange juice" is pronounced, the two words share ______ .

• 
  /j/ sound

• /dʒ/ sound

• /ʒ/ sound

• /n/ sound

_______   is the disappearance of sounds in speech.

• Elision

• Rhythm

• Assimilation

• Linking

Which of the underlined final sounds would disappear in fast speech?

"I started it last Tuesday."

• /d/ in 'started'

• 
  

  /t/ in 'last'

Name the phonological process in the following phrase:

good night ➔ /ɡʊn naɪt/

• regressive assimilation

• 
  elision

• linking

• 
  progressive assimilation