Could you please lend me your ears?

Did you buy your food?

 Do you notice how the voiced /d/ and the voiceless /y/ are connected in the pronunciation. This is called assimilation.

Meaning
Assimilation is a phonological process where a phone becomes similar to a nearby phone. When a sound is affected by a neighbouring sound.

Types of Assimilation

Place of Articulation

Manner of Articulation

Voicing

Place of Articulation
The most common form involves the movement of place of articulation of the

alveolar stops /t/, /d/ and etc to a

position closer to that of the following

sound.

Example 1
BEFORE A VELAR (/k/, /g/) Phoneme Realised as Example good girl /gg g:l/ that kid /k kd/

/d/
/t/

/g/
/k/

Example 2
BEFORE A BILABIAL (/m/, /b/, /p/)
Phoneme /n/ /d/ Realised as /m/ /b/ Example ten men /tm 'mn/ bad boys /bb bz/

/t/

/p/

hot mushrooms /hp mru:mz/

Manner of Articulation
Less frequent and less noticeable Only found in very fast casual speech Typically toward less extreme obstruction Sometimes progressively

Example 3
Word : Good night /gd nat/ becomes /gn nat/

A final plosive becomes a nasal

Example 4 Word : That side /t sad/ becomes /s sad/

A final plosive becomes a fricative

Example 5
Word : Read these /ri:d i:z/ becomes /ri:ddi:z/

An initial fricative becomes a plosive

Voicing
The vibration of the vocal cords is not something that can be switched on and off very swiftly, as a result groups of consonants tend to be either all voiced or all voiceless.

Example 6
Word : Have to /hv tu:/ becomes /hft/

Word: Has to /hz tu:/ becomes /hst/ Word: I have to go /a hft g/

Example 7
Word: Used to /ju:zd tu:/ becomes /ju:st/

Word : I used to live near you.

/a ju:st lv n ju:/

Example 8
Word: Supposed to /spzd tu:/ becomes /spst/

Word : You were supposed to leave! /ju: w spst li:v/

 /t/ changes to /p/ before /m/ /b/ or /p/

-best man -put back -cigarette paper

/d/ changes to /b/ before /m/ /b/ or /p/

-good morning -blood bank -mud pie

 /n/ changes to /m/ before /m/ /b/ or /p/

-iron man -brown bear -pen pal

/t/ changes to /k/ before /k/ or /g/ -credit card -fat girl