connected speech processes

Question 1

assimilation

Answer 1

sound changes to become more like a neighbouring sound

Question 2

vowel reduction

Answer 2

unstressed vowel reduced to schwa

Question 3

ellision/omission

Answer 3

deleting or removing a sound in connected speech (a vowel, consonant or whole syllable)

Question 4

insertion

Answer 4

adding in a sound

Question 5

substitution

Answer 5

swapping a sound for a different one

Question 6

salient features

Answer 6

important, relevant and interesting