标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 2 Track 35（在线收听）

Chapter 2. Word Connections                                            CD 2 Track 35

As mentioned in the previous chapter, in American Englis h, words are not pronounced one by one. Usually, the end of one word attaches to the beginni ng of the next word. This is also true for initials, numbers, and spelling. Pa rt of the glue that connects sentences is an underlying hum or  drone that only breaks when you  come to a period, a nd sometimes not even  then. You have this underlying hum in your own language  and it helps a great deal  toward making you sound like a native speaker.  

Once you have a strong intonation, you need to connect all those stairsteps together so that each sentence sounds like one long wo rd. This chapter is going to  introduce you to the idea of liaisons, the connections between  words, which allow us to speak in sound groups rather than in individual words. Just as we we nt over where to put an intona tion, here you're  going to learn how to connect words. Once you  understand and learn to use this technique, you can make the important leap from this practice book to  other materials and your own conversation. 

To make it easier for  you to read, liaisons  are written like this:  They tell me the dai measier. (You've already encountered some liaisons in  Exercises 1-38, 1-49, 1-53.) It could also be written theytellmethedaimeasier,  but it would be too hard to read.