10.24.2010, 12:22 PM
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Ok, it actually depends on the vowels :
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Liaison
Liaison is another process which involves the addition of a sound. In this case, a speaker
inserts a sound in order to ease the link between vowels at the end of one word and at the
beginning of an immediately following word.
The most well known case involves a historical < r > at the end of a word. In most British
accents, the < r > in a word like here is not pronounced if there is either a consonant
following in the next word, or silence. But if the immediately following word begins with a
vowel, the < r > does get pronounced: here in Britain / "hI@r Im "brItn= /. Such an / r / is
traditionally known as a ‘linking / r /’, as speakers use it to link up the end of one word with
the beginning of the next. Here are some more examples:
far "fA: far away "fA:r @"weI
near ____________ near enough ____________
there ____________ there on the floor ____________
floor ____________ next floor up ____________
stir ____________ stir in ____________
ever ____________ ever after ____________
more ____________ more examples ______________
Notice the kind of vowel that occurs in the first column: / A:, I@, E@, O@, 3:, @ /, all relatively
open or mid, and back or central/centring. It is now very common for native English
speakers to add / r / to any word ending in these vowels when the immediately following
word begins with a vowel – even if there is no ‘historical’ / r / in the spelling. There was, in
the 1960s and 70s, a fierce controversy as to whether this ‘non-historical’ / r / liaison was
acceptable in contemporary Received Pronunciation, but it is now widely heard and accepted
as a current form, based on the analogy of the ‘linking / r /. But because of that controversy,
this ‘non-historical’ case is usually referred to as the ‘intrusive / r /’. Here are some
examples:
spa "spA: the spa is open D@ "spA:r Iz "@Up@n
media __________ media operation ____________________
law __________ law in Scotland ____________________
milieu __________ milieu in society ____________________
Laura __________ Laura Ashley ____________________
Although the ‘intrusive / r /’ is added on the analogy of the ‘linking / r /’, it is basically an
identical process of liaison, easing the link between two vowels across a word boundary.
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If a word ends in the vowels / i:, i, eI, aI, OI /, some speakers use / j / to link them to a vowel
at the beginning of an immediately following vowel. And if a word ends in the vowels
/ u:, u, aU, @U /, a / w / is often used to produce a similar link. Here are some examples:
see si: see off "si:j "Qf
stay __________ stay out ______________
high __________ high over ______________
toy __________ toy animals ______________
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the end ______________
new __________ new information ____________
no __________ no idea ______________
how __________ how about ______________
to end ______________
Liaison with / r, j, w / - the three approximants – eases the link between any final vowel and
any vowel at the beginning of an immediately following word. It is thus another type of
simplification process.
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http://cardiff.ac.uk/encap/resources...ishphrases.pdf
PS : the board can't display some phonetic symbols correctly 
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