"Liaison"

Practising “liaison” for every word connection

Practising “liaison” for every word connection

The Myth of Liaison

Main article: The Myth of Liaison.

First of all, “liaison” doesn’t exist in English.

Definition of "Liaison":

Phonetics

(in French and other languages) the sounding of a consonant that is normally silent at the end of a word, because the next word begins with a vowel.

You can see that this does not exist in English, because the final sounds of words are always pronounced. Even if the final T is “dropped”, it is actually dropped downwards into the glottis, producing the glottal stop /ʔ/.

If the final T were completely unpronounced — removed — a word would sound wrong: cat would become cahh, but would become buhh, fit would become fihh. This is not the case.

• Practise every single word connection that you can think of.

• Even practise ones which you don't know if they exist!

• Learn to pronounce each phoneme alone, any vowel sound before or after it.

Read through this list of word connections to practise the ways of connecting various pairs & sets of phonemes.

make dinner = /kd/
brush my = /ʃm/
have breakfast = /vbr/
have lunch = /vl/
walk to = /lkt/
finish work = /ʃw/
dog for = /ɡf/
sleep for = /pf/
of the = /vð/
behind the = /ndð/
among the = /ŋð/
next to = /kst͜ t/
across the = /sð/
on the = /nð/
twelfth /lfθ/
-teenth /nθ/
"what's the" = /tsð/
is the = /zð/
it's the = /tsð/
with my = /ðm/
can't sleep = /tsl/
was lovely = /zl/
the end = /iːjɛ/
is studying = /zst/
is she = /zʃ/
next Monday = /kstm/
sounds good = /ndzg/