Linking
is a basic element of American English Pronunciation.
In a dictionary, words are given in isolation.
In natural speech, however, you don’t say words separately.
You connect words together. You link them.
Linking
- Compare: interested in – interesting: difficult quiz
- Compare: interested in – interesting: easy quiz
- conjunction: and = /ænd/
- conjunction: and = /ən/
- Contraction: it’s + a
- initialisms: a or an
- Linking: /t/ + /y/ = /t͡ʃ/
- Linking: /t/ + /y/ = /t͡ʃ/
- Linking: a, an + vowel sound
- Linking: animal idioms
- Linking: consonant sound + of
- Linking: consonant sound + or
- Linking: consonant sound + same consonant sound
- Linking: consonant sound + vowel sound
- Linking: d + y = /d͡ʒ/
- Linking: present / past tense + vowel sound
- Linking: secret /y, w/ + vowel sound
- Linking: There’s a hole in my bucket
- Linking: time idioms
- Linking: word final -ed /dId/ + vowel sound
- Linking: word final -ed + vowel sound
- Linking: word final /s, z, Iz/ + vowel sound
- Phrasal Verbs: sleep
- Phrasal Verbs: taking a trip
- Phrasal Verbs: taking a test
- Reduction: have to … has to … had to
- Rip Van Winkle
- Silent o: sophomore
- T: flap t = /d/
- T: stop t = /t|/
- to be used to (routine, habit)
- to get used to (process of change)
- use (noun or verb)
- used to (past tense)
- Vocabulary: college or university
- wonder word: with
