LINKING

Queniechel F. Melgarejo BSED-IV English

LINKING

Is a general term for the adjustment speakers make

between words in connected speech.

Why don’t you find out?

Why don’t you fine doubt?

Morphological information (plurals, verb, form and tense, possessive.etc) can be conveyed by endings, which are often easier to pronounce and become more salient to the listener when linked:

She change-dit is easier to pronounce than She

changed-it.

If learners simply leaved off an ending, important information can be lost. Instead, we need to focus learner’s attention on the linked sound, which in the examples below provides the listener with the distinction between present and past:

Present: They live in Miami(The v should be linked clearly between lived and in)

Past: They lived in Miami(The d should be linked to the next syllable in)

We need to make learners aware that all of these pronunciation features ( thought , groups, prominence, intonation, rhythm, reduced speech, linking ) work together to package our utterances in away that can be processed easily by our listeners. So rather than being more comprehensible by speaking each word separately our learners actually become less fluent and less intelligible.

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