PROGRESS 8

Words generally stressed in sentences are _____ which are important words which convey meaning

content words

When studying initial consonant cluster, we can find the possibility up to ______ at the beginning of a word.

three consonants

When two different forms are______in every way except for one sound segment that occurs in the same place in the string, the two words are called a minimal pair.

identical

An_______ is a consonant which starts as a plosive, but instead of ending with plosion, ends with a fricative made in the same place.

affricative

Words generally unstressed in sentences are _____which include articles,prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, and helping verbs.

function words

Assimilation is of two sorts: we have _______ where a sound is influenced by the sound which follows it; ______ where a sound is influenced by the sound that precedes it.

regressive assimilation/ progressive assimilation

Elision refers to the _______ of one or more sounds in connected speech

which would be present in a word pronounced in isolation.

disappearance

When a word ends with an /u:/, /əʊ/ or /aʊ/ sound, the next word starts with a vowel sound, we often link them with a _____ sound.

/w/

When a sound ends with an /з:/, /ǝ/, /:/ or /eǝ/ sound and the next word starts with a vowel sound, we often link them with a______ sound

/r/

In the sentence "Walk down the path to end of the canal', there are_____rhythm units

5

When a word ends with /i/, /i:/ sound and the next words starts with a vowel sound, we often link them with a_____ sound

/j/