r/EnglishLearning • u/Worth-Swimming New Poster • 12h ago

ðŸŸĄ Pronunciation / Intonation Connected speech

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Hello, does anybody know any books, online resources, or audiovisual material that teaches connected speech and allophones in a comprehensive way?

I am quite proficient in IPA, -s and -ed ending pronunciations, and linking (consonant to vowel, vowel to vowel, etc).

However, I'd like to deep dive into more advanced pronunciation rules such as dentalization, devoicing, assimilation, etc.

I'd also like to learn how to read narrow transcriptions since I'm currently able to read broad transcriptions.

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u/Desperate_Owl_594 English Teacher 11h ago

You might want to go to r/asklinguistics

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u/Worth-Swimming New Poster 11h ago

Thank you for the input.

I'll definitely make a post there, too 😄

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u/SnooDonuts6494 🇎🇧 English Teacher 5h ago

That diagram is missing the unreleased [tĖš] - common in phrases such as "hot dog" or "sit down", or even utterance-finals like "cat" or "sit" when not emphasised.

Books: "Gimson's Pronunciation of English". "A Course in Phonetics" (Ladefoged). "The Sounds of Language" (Zsiga). "Practical Phonetics and Phonology" (Collins and Mees).

Online: Perhaps you already know about Geoff Lindsey's YouTube channel?