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now, click here and show what you know about aspects of Connected Speech

now, click here and show what you know about aspects of Connected Speech

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
"English people speak so " is a that is often heard from the english language students, and often from those at an advanced level, where ignorance of the vocabulary used is not the reason for their of . When students see a spoken sentencein its written form they have no trouble comprehending. Why is this?
The reason it seems is that is a continuous of , without clear-cut borderlines between each word. In spoken discourse, we adapt our and with maximal of movement rather than maximal . Thus, certain words are and certain together as we attempt to get our message across.

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