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    The document discusses the phonological process of dentalization across word boundaries in connected speech. Dentalization occurs when an alveolar consonant sound /t, d, n, s, z, l/ at the end of one word is pronounced with dental articulation if the following word begins with the dental fricatives /θ, ð/. This causes the alveolar sound to assimilate the place of articulation of the upcoming dental sound. Several examples are provided, such as "hot thing" being pronounced as [hɒt̪̚ θɪ̃ŋ], to illustrate how dentalization operates across word junctions in connected speech.

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    The document discusses the phonological process of dentalization across word boundaries in connected speech. Dentalization occurs when an alveolar consonant sound /t, d, n, s, z, l/ at the end of one word is pronounced with dental articulation if the following word begins with the dental fricatives /θ, ð/. This causes the alveolar sound to assimilate the place of articulation of the upcoming dental sound. Several examples are provided, such as "hot thing" being pronounced as [hɒt̪̚ θɪ̃ŋ], to illustrate how dentalization operates across word junctions in connected speech.

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    The document discusses the phonological process of dentalization across word boundaries in connected speech. Dentalization occurs when an alveolar consonant sound /t, d, n, s, z, l/ at the end of one word is pronounced with dental articulation if the following word begins with the dental fricatives /θ, ð/. This causes the alveolar sound to assimilate the place of articulation of the upcoming dental sound. Several examples are provided, such as "hot thing" being pronounced as [hɒt̪̚ θɪ̃ŋ], to illustrate how dentalization operates across word junctions in connected speech.

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    Dental Ization

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    The document discusses the phonological process of dentalization across word boundaries in connected speech. Dentalization occurs when an alveolar consonant sound /t, d, n, s, z, l/ at the end of one word is pronounced with dental articulation if the following word begins with the dental fricatives /θ, ð/. This causes the alveolar sound to assimilate the place of articulation of the upcoming dental sound. Several examples are provided, such as "hot thing" being pronounced as [hɒt̪̚ θɪ̃ŋ], to illustrate how dentalization operates across word junctions in connected speech.

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    Dentalization:

    To reiterate, assimilation occurs when one sound is altered owing to the


    influence of a neighboring segment. In the previous example we saw how
    alveolars may be dentalized across a word boundary when followed
    immediately by a dental sound. A further example should serve to
    consolidate this concept:

    hot thing /hɒt θɪŋ/

    In the phrase hot thing the word boundary occurs between the first word
    hot and the immediately following word thing. The first word hot ends
    with the alveolar sound /t/. This sound, therefore, precedes the word
    boundary. The first sound following the word boundary is the dental
    consonant /θ/ in the word thing. The alveolar sound before the word
    boundary is, consequently, dentalized in anticipation of the upcoming
    dental sound that occurs immediately after the word boundary, i.e.

    hot thing /hɒt θɪŋ/ → [hɒt̪ θɪ̃ŋ]

    Note that in this example the dentalized [t̪] is produced without


    aspiration as it is unreleased. That is to say, the oral cavity is occluded to
    create the stop consonant but there is no audible release in the plosive
    phase of its production. Unreleased plosives are marked in IPA with the
    diacritic [ ̚], i.e.

    hot thing /hɒt θɪŋ/ → [hɒt̪̚ θɪ̃ŋ]

    Further examples of dentalization across word boundaries include the


    following:

    hit this /hɪt ðɪs/ → [hɪt̪̚ ðɪs]

    ten things /tɛn θɪŋz/ → [tɛ̃ n̪ θɪ̃ŋz̥ ]

    tell that /tɛl ðæt/ → [tɛl̪ ðæʔ]

    In summary, we see that as well as dentalization occurring within words,


    this process can also operate in connected speech across word
    boundaries. The above examples demonstrate how alveolars before a
    word boundary are dentalized if the initial sound of the next word is a
    dental. Under these circumstances, the alveolar assimilates the place of
    articulation of the dental. We can summarize this into a rule about
    dentalization across word boundaries:

    The brown vertical line represents a word boundary and the rule is read
    as:

    ‘If the sound in word-final position of the word preceding the word
    boundary is an alveolar /t, d, n, s, z, l/ and if the sound in word-initial
    position in the word immediately following the word boundary is a dental
    /θ, ð/ then the alveolar is dentalized.’

    Some further examples should make this clear:

    can they? /kæn ðeɪ/ → [k̟ ʰæ̃n̪ ðeɪː]

    this thing /ðɪs θɪŋ/ → [ðɪs̪ θɪ̃ŋ]

    those things /ðəʊz θɪŋz/→ [ðəʊːz̪̪̊ θɪ̃ŋz̥ ]

    all those /ɔɫ ðəʊz/ → [ɔːɫ̪ ðəʊːz̥ ]

    Each instance is an example of allophonic assimilation because the newly


    assimilated sound is an allophone of the transformed phoneme. This
    process of allophonic assimilation can be summarized in the following
    statement.
    Word-final alveolars are dentalized before dental fricatives.

    As well as dentalization, the assimilatory process of labialization can also


    occur across word boundaries.

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