Linking “with a”

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unvoiced with a

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witha sometimes when people link the

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ending th that is unvoiced into a voiced

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sound like the vowel schah they will

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voice it and say with

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with but I left that unvoiced with a

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with a with a free day with with a free

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day with a free day with a free day is

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to ride my bike ride bike those were the

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two longest words in that sentence

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fragment is to ride my bike I notice

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again I reduced this to the schwas sound

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it's not to it's to T is to is to is to

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is to ride is to ride is to ride my bike

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is to ride my bike is to ride my bike is

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to ride my bike sometimes I'll ride a

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Ong the Hudson River what did you hear

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is the most stressed syllables

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there I'm hearing

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some

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ride HUD

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Riv as you practice your own speech

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listen to it and make sure that you can

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pick out stressed syllables in a

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sentence if you can't then they all

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sound too much the same and we're

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lacking good rhythmic contrast so it's

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always good to study other speech and to

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note what do you hear as being the

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longest syllables usually it will go

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along