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In this chapter the readers discover the speaking habits that underlie smooth linking of adjacent words together. Using real speech examples the discussion focuses on the most frequent assimilations, elisions and linking strategies that are common for English. The chapter also strengthens the awareness of speaking patterns through informal verbal descriptions of articulatory activity and its acoustic consequence present in producing short phrases. Further practical guidelines are provided for carrying out projects examining speaking behaviour with Praat.

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    Sometimes, however, the linking consonants, especially linking-r might have phonetic characteristics of a coda rather than an onset consonant.

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    This is known as stress clash and will be discussed in Sect. 11.4 of the next chapter.

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  1. Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia

    Štefan Beňuš

  2. Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Štefan Beňuš

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Beňuš, Š. (2021). Connected Speech Aspects. In: Investigating Spoken English. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54349-5_10

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