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Assimilation of manner is less noticeable in the most rapid and casual speech again for regressive assimilation. Thus the cases will be final plosives become fricatives or nasals ( good night: gʊn naɪt, that side: ðæs saɪd ) When word initial ð follows a plosive or nasal at the end.
In the: ɪn ðə ɪnnə Get them: get ðəm get təm Read these: ri:d ði:z ri:d di:z
Assimilation of voice is also found in limited ways. If the consonant is a lenis (voiced) and second consonant is fortis (voiceless) we find that lenis consonant has no voicing I have to: final v becomes voiceless f Final voiceless t aɪ hæf tu
And in some way "z" in cheese ʈʃi:z becomes like 's' in cheesecake ʈʃi:skeɪk
However, when first consonant is fortis (v-) and the second is lenis (v+) the first one in many contexts become voiced...
I like that black dog aɪ laɪk ðæt blæk dɒg Regressive
Like laɪg That ðæd Black blaæg aɪ laɪg ðæd blaæg dɒg. Strong foreign accent...
A similar assimilation of voice with s, z suffixes when a verb caries 3rd person, or a noun carries plural, and possessive suffixes "s" proceeding fortis (v-) consonants with *s* and lenis (v+) voiced consonants with *z*
Cats kæt s Jumps dʒʌmp s Dogs dɒg z Runs rʌn z Pam's pæm z
Assimilation creates some problems of phoneme theory : D in "good girl" becomes g Or b in "good boy". Gʊg gɜ:l Gʊb bɔɪ
Good has bilabial allophones and phonemes are supposed not to overlap in their allophones.
The next aspect of connected speech will be elision
