The document presents a presentation on the features of connected speech given to Sir Nazir Ahmad Malik. It discusses key features such as assimilation, rhythm, juncture, informal contractions like "wanna", compression, elision, and weak forms. Assimilation refers to one sound becoming similar to an adjacent sound. Languages have either stress-timed or syllable-timed rhythm. Juncture concerns the relationship between sounds. Informal contractions are shortened casual forms like "gonna". Compression reduces the number of syllables. Elision omits sounds and weak forms involve reduced pronunciation.

4. PRESENTER-1 MUHAMMAD IMRAN BHATTI

10. CONNECTED SPEECH FEATURES

21. (A) Stress-timed Rhythm

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54. Elision is used to refer to the omission of sounds in connected speech. In other words, assimilation means the variation of a sound whereas, elision means the loss of a sound. Both consonants and vowels may be affected, and sometimes even whole syllables may be elided. The term elision describes the disappearance of a sound. For example, in the utterance He leaves next week speakers would generally elide (leave out) the /t/ in next saying /neks wi:k/. Again here, the reason is an economy of effort, and in some instances the difficulty of putting certain consonant sounds together while maintaining a regular rhythm and speed. ELISION

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