Linking Consonants to Vowels – English Pronunciation
This is the final in a series of three posts about how words are linked together in spoken English.In the first post, we talked about linking vowel sounds together. You…
How English Words Are Reduced
How English Words Are "Reduced" We’ve talked about how English speakers stress some words in a sentence. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are called “content words.” Content words tell you…
More About Stress-Timed English
More About Stress-Timing in English In the last post, we discovered that English is a stress-timed language. That means that speakers will stress certain words, and minimize, or reduce, others.…
