Reducing “and”

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sometimes

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reducing the word and and sometimes and

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sometimes and sometimes let's talk about

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stress in that last part of the sentence

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and sometimes I'll go visit friends in

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Brooklyn what did you hear as being the

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most stressed syllables some sort of but

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even stronger

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VI

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friends Brook verb noun noun the content

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words and did you notice the contraction

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ale again pronounced with the a as in

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law vowel reduced to all all all

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all and sometimes

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and sometimes I'll and sometimes I'll go

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visit friends in Brooklyn also all of

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these words as always in a thought group

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were very connected I had a stop te here

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and visit so I didn't bother to release

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it which would have made a little Gap in

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my line visit friends visit friends

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visit friends visit friends visit

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friends in Brooklyn also the ending z

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sound of friends linked into the

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beginning vowel of the next

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word friends in friend in friends in

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friends in Brooklyn visit friends in

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Brooklyn visit friends in Brooklyn visit

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friends in Brooklyn