2. • It refers to all those aspects which affects words and utterance at the
level of qualitative production.
There’s mainly three distintictive factors which determine it
1. Economy of articulation
2. Fast Speech
3. Informal Speech

3. • There’s a wide variety of features which happen in everyday english
both in american and british english standards. But there is around six
main aspects to be considered. Each one of these with their
respective rules and applications
1. Linking
2. Elision
3. Assimilation
4. Compression
5. Levelling
6. Gradation

15. • Elision is the drop of a sound especially in unaccented syllables
• It usually affects weak sounds such as /u/ /i/ and /ə/ when they’re
between two consonant sounds
• Consonants which are usually elided are /k/ /t/ /h/ /l/ and /v/ when
there’s a combination of more than two consonants (simple cluster)

45. • It refers to the influence of a sound (consonant) over a neighbouring
consonant which causes a change in the quality of the sound being
affected.
Ex. Could you pass me that book, please?
• There’s three types of assimilation
Regressive type
Progressive type
Coalescent type