用简单实用的规则技巧，塑造地道美式语音语调。
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No.3《连读规则之----辅辅连读》
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【精华讲解】辅辅连读是两个辅音之间发生连读，一般有两种情况：一种是叠音连读，比如gas station,bad dog , book case 和hot tea.另一种是失去爆破（包含不完全爆破），即p\b\t\d\k\g这6个爆破音后面紧跟其他所有辅音时，都要失去爆破，无论在句中还是在词中此规则都适用，比如Stop talking.中的pt,和Good morning.中的dm,以及picture中的kt
和notebook中的tb,前一个爆破音都要失去爆破。特别注意【失去爆破】不是简单的省略不读，而是刚要发这个爆破音时气流瞬间被憋住而紧接着把憋住的气流释放到下一个辅音身上，这样短暂停顿后就形成失去爆破的连读方式了。

【视频原文】
In this American English pronunciation video, we’re going to go over linking consonant to consonant.

Linking is an important part of American English. If we break between each word, it sounds very choppy. But in American English, we like to link words together for a smooth sound. I’ve already made videos on linking Vowel to Vowel and Consonant to Vowel. Linking Consonant to Consonant happens all the time in American English. In that sentence right there it happened four times: ng-kk, nt-tt, nt-hh, and ll-th. We can’t cover every example of linking consonant to consonant as there are simply too many combinations for this video, but I will give you some examples.

First let’s talk about linking the same consonant. Take the example ‘gas station’. It’s not ‘gas station’, with two separate S’s, it’s ‘gas station’: one S, connecting the two words. I’m going to the gas station. I already used this example last year when I took a road trip. Click here to see that video, or go to the video description. Another example: some might, some might. Again, not some might, but some might, connected with one M. Some might think so.

The rule gets a little complicated when we bring in Stop Consonants. The six stop consonants are t, d, p, b, k, and g. When these meet in between two words, like ‘hot today’, you have to stop the air to signify the first consonant, then release the sound into the next word. So, it’s not ‘hahtoday’, but ‘hot today’, with a stop. So to make that stop, I’m just holding the air in my throat, for a fraction of a second. Another example, ‘bad dog’. It’s not ‘baadog’, but bad dog, with a stop.

This is true in general when we’re linking a stop consonant to any other consonant. For example, peanut butter – stopped T, released B, peanut butter. Not ‘peanuh butter’, with no stop, but also not ‘peanut butter’ with a released T, but peanut butter. Flip phone. Here we stop the sound with the lips in position for the P, then go straight into the F consonant without releasing the P. Flip phone, flip phone. It’s not ‘flip phone’, with a full release, and it’s not flihphone, with no stop of air. We have to stop the air. Flip phone, flip phone. This way of linking ending stop consonants to words that begin with another consonant is a great trick to add to your English if you haven’t already. Some students have trouble with this, and add an additional schwa sound between words in order to link in these situations. So ‘hot sauce’ becomes something more like ‘hot-uh-sauce’. So remember, don’t release that ending stop consonant, just stop the air.

For all other cases, you’ll just need to isolate the two sounds in question and practice. Let’s take for example ‘It’s a tough one’. Here we’re linking the F and W sounds. Practice them separately, ff, ww, ff, ww. Now practice them together, sliding slowly from one sound to the other ff-ww, ff-ww. Really think about what you’re moving to transition in-between these two sounds. In this case, my bottom lip was touching the bottom of the top front teeth, ff, and then the lips round out. My tongue doesn’t have to move. Ff-ww, ff-ww, tough one, tough one. Tough one. It’s a tough one. So, isolate the sounds, practice them separately, practice them together slowly, speed them up and put them back into the context of the words and eventually the sentence.

Let’s look at one more example. We’ll link the N sound to the R sound: On Rachel’s desk. Here, my lips and tongue have to move. Nn, rr, nn, rr. Now link them together slowly: nn, rr. You may see my lips are rounding a little bit as I’m making the N, that’s in preparation for the R. The tongue goes from having the top part of the front of the tongue at the roof of the mouth here, NN, to having the front part of the tongue touching nothing. As the tongue pulls back for the R So for the R, the middle part of the tongue is touching the roof of the mouth, or maybe the insides of the teeth, about here. Nn-rr. Onn-Rr, Onn-Rrachel’s. I’m really feeling the tongue move up and then back, on Rachel’s, on Rachel’s. On Rachel’s desk.

Check out the other videos that I’ve made, that address some consonant to consonant linking. Take any short text and look for words that should link consonant to consonant. For each case, think about what kind of linking it is. Is the consonant the same? Is the first consonant a stop consonant? Practice it slowly. Linking is a crucial part of smoothing out speech, sounding American.

Put an example of a simple sentence where you would need to link consonant to consonant below in the comments. Practice with the sentences that everyone else puts!
That’s it, and thanks so much for using Rachel’s English.