Assimilation in English connected Speech

Abstract EN

The current study focuses on one of the most significant problems of English phonemic analysis that is the phenomenon of assimilation.

The notion assimilation is discussed, by many phoneticians and phonologists like Roach, Carr and many others, as a phonological process when there is a change of one sound into another because of adjacent segments.

Assimilation has many types with different forms.

It also has its own rules that constraint sounds and how a feature of a sound spreads to an adjacent sound.

The aim of this paper is an attempt to provide an adequate background knowledge for those who are interested in this phonetic phenomenon.