Linking

1. LINKING
Queniechel F.Melgarejo
BSED-IV English

2. LINKING
Is a general term for the adjustment
speakers make between words in
connected speech.

3. Why don’t you find out?
Why don’t you fine doubt?

4. Morphological information
(plurals, verb, form and tense,
possessive.etc) can be conveyed
by endings, which are often
easier to pronounce and become
more salient to the listener when
linked:

5. She change-dit is easier to
pronounce than She changed-it.

6. If learners simply leaved off an
ending, important information can
be lost. Instead, we need to focus
learner’s attention on the linked
sound, which in the examples
below provides the listener with the
distinction between present and
past:

7. Present: They live in Miami
(The v should be linked clearly between lived and in)
Past: They lived in Miami
(The d should be linked to the next syllable in)

8. We need to make learners aware that
all of these pronunciation features ( thought ,
groups, prominence, intonation, rhythm,
reduced speech, linking ) work together to
package our utterances in away that can be
processed easily by our listeners. So rather
than being more comprehensible by
speaking each word separately our learners
actually become less fluent and less
intelligible.

9. That ends my
presentation
Thank You for
LISTENING…