Intensive Study As His Name Is, So Is He! Para.1 For her first twenty-four years, she'd been known as Debbie-a name that didn't suit her good looks and elegant manner. \My name has always made me think I should be a cook, she complained. \I just don't feel like a Debbie.\
Part Two Sounds in Connected Speech 1. Strong and Weak Forms 2. Assimilation and elision 3. Liaison 4. Length of a sound 5. Word stress 6. Sentence stress 7. Rhythm 8. Sense groups and Pause
202.The length of a sound is the length of time during which it is held on continuously in a given word or phrase. The principal facts concerning length in English are given in the following rules: 203. Length of vowels 1.English vowels [i:], are longer than the other English vowels in similar context,i.e when surrounded by the same sounds, and pronounced with the same degree of stress Thus the vowels in bead