Connected speech

Question 1

What are connected speech processes?

Answer 1

changes in sound due to the overlap of articulations or timings of gestures due to the dynamic nature of speech.

Question 2

what is the connected speech process?

Answer 2

1. coarticulation/ assimilation
2. reduction
3. elision
4. epenthesis
5. lenition

Question 3

What does coarticulation/ assimilation refer to?

Answer 3

Coarticulation emphasises on the [phonetic process] where one sound becomes more similar to another
Assimilation refers to the [phonological process] of what rules a sound goes through to become another one.

Question 4

What are the 2 different types of coarticulation?

Answer 4

Preservative/carryover coarticulation - the preceding sound affects the following sound (A->B)
Anticipatory coarticulation - the following sound affects the preceding sound (A<-B)

Question 5

What does reduction refer to?

Answer 5

in certain contexts, when vowels get reduced e.g. become shorter and their quality becomes more central

Question 6

What does elision refer to?

Answer 6

reduction at a more extreme level: apparant disappearance of a whole segment

Question 7

what does epenthesis refer to?

Answer 7

insertion of an additional sound, as features of one sound overlap those of another
e.g. “saw a” - intrusive r

Question 8

what does lenition refer to?

Answer 8

a weakening process

Question 9

what are the two types of lenition?

Answer 9

spirantisation - a segment becoming a fricative
debuccalisation - losing oral articulation to become a glottal