intrusion when a sound is put in between a final vowel and a beginning vowel even when the spelling doesn't merit itcontraction use of shortened forms of auxiliary verbs and negativesassimilation when a phoneme is realised differently as a result of being near some other phonemeelision when a consonant or vowel which would be present in a carefully pronounced version of the word or phrase is left outlinking where one word is linked to the next either by catenation or by intrusion or linking 'r'gemination when two sounds next to each other are so similar you can't tell there are two, e.g. the 2 'n's in unknownprosody stress, rhythm, intonation especially when considered along with tempo, loudness and voice quality are referred to as _____syllable a unit of pron that is larger than a sound but smaller than a word, the centre (peak) of which is a vowel with optional consonants as onset and / or codarhythm the way some words are emphasized to give the effect of regular beatsstress the effect of emphasizing certain syllables by increasing their loudness, length or pitchword stress refers to the prominence of a syllable at word levelsentence stress the pattern or stressed and unstressed syllables over a whole sentence