connected speech - Spoken language in which the words join to form a connected stream of sounds. In connected speech some sounds in words may be left out or may be pronounced in a weak way, e.g. Is he busy., contraction - A shorter form of a group of words, which usually occurs in auxiliary verbs, e.g. you have = you've; it is = it's., diphthong - A vowel combination which is pronounced by moving from one vowel to another, intonation - The way the level of a speaker's voice changes, to show meaning such as how they feel about something, e.g. if they are angry or pleased or to make speech sound polite in English. Intonation can be rising or falling or both., lexical set - A group of words or phrases that are about the same topic, e.g. weather - storm, to rain, wind, cloudy etc., phoneme - The smallest sound unit which can make a difference to meaning e.g. /p/ in pan, /b/ in ban. Each of these have their own symbols (phonemic symbols), each of which represents one sound., stress - Pronouncing part of a word (syllable) or part of a sentence louder and longer than other parts, e.g. VEGetable, I LOVE baNAnas., schwa - The /ə/ sound. It is a feature of many weak forms, e.g. /kən/ in I can play tennis.,

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