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Juncture in connected speech

Try saying I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream. Although the phonemes involved in the underlined words are the same, subtle differences help us tell the deed from the dessert. The same subtle differences in the use of phonemes are also found in the underlined words in the following two sentences: The clock keeps ticking. /kiːps tɪkɪŋ/ The kids keep sticking things on the wall. /kiːp stɪkɪŋ/ The differences in the pronunciation of the underlined words, despite the fact that the phonemes are the same, are differences of juncture. A deeper analysis of such examples would show differences in the length of vowel sounds, variations in degrees of syllable stress, differently timed articulation of the consonant sounds and allophonic variations too. So, while the phonemes may be the same, listeners have no difficulty (most of the time) in telling where the join is, and the context clearly plays an important role here. Other examples showing the same phenomenon are: That’s my train. It might rain. The great apes. The grey tapes. In the pair Can I have more ice? Can I have more rice? The linking /r/ could lead to confusion over juncture, but again context and subtle differences in articulation help us to judge which one we have heard.