Week 2 connected Speech Assimilation

Question 1

Assimilation

Answer 1

A phone becomes similar or identical to a neighbouring phone.

Question 2

Regressive assimilation

Answer 2

The phone is affected by the following phone

Question 3

Progressive assimilation

Answer 3

The phone is affected by the preceding phone (more rarely)

Question 4

Assimilation of place

Answer 4

[t] ➡️ p
d ➡️ b
n➡️m
d➡️g
s➡️ ʃ

The most common and affects mainly alveolar consonants /t/ d n when they are followed by non- alveolar consonant
s z are only affected by palatalisation

CHANGEMENT DE COLONNES

Question 5

Assimilation of manner

Answer 5

t ➡️ s
d ➡️ n
ð ➡️ n̪
ð ➡️ t̪
ð ➡️ d̪

Less common and mainly affects stops to turn them into fricatives or nasals or the it is preceded by a stop or a nasal (WE then have a dental)

CHANGEMENT DE LIGNES

Question 6

Assimilation of voice

Answer 6

z ➡️ s
v ➡️ f
ʒ ➡️ ʃ

Rare
Always voiced ➡️ devoiced
And mostly occurs in highly frequent expressions

Question 7

Nasalisation

Answer 7

A type of assimilation of manner in which the nasal feature spreads from coda to an adjacent vowel. In English, it almost exclusively occurs between a coda nasal and a preceding stressed vowel.

Question 8

Total assimilation

Answer 8

Identical to the trigerring phone

Question 9

Palatalisation

Answer 9

Frequent type of regressive assimilation where an alveolar phone becomes a post alveolar fricative or affricate when followed by the palatal glide j

Question 10

Yod coalescence

Answer 10

A process changing t + j ➡️tʃ or d + j into dʒ