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Liaison only happens when the following word starts with a vowel or semivowel, and is restricted to word sequences whose components are linked in sense, e.g., article + noun, adjective + noun, personal pronoun + verb, and so forth. This indicates that liaison is primarily active in high-frequency word associations (collocations).
Linking R and intrusive R are sandhi phenomena [1] where a rhotic consonant is pronounced between two consecutive vowels with the purpose of avoiding a hiatus, that would otherwise occur in the expressions, such as tuner amp, although in isolation tuner is pronounced the same as tuna /ˈtjuːnə/ (or /ˈtuːnə/) in non-rhotic varieties of English.
This liaison symbol (as well as the syllabic separation symbol ".") should never be used in the transcription of the various possible phonetic realizations (conventionally noted between [square brackets], normally independently of the language and that can be using a much richer set of IPA symbols for phonetic realizations), but in the simplified phonological notation between /slashes/ that ...
The liaison tie is also used to join lexical words into phonological words, for example hot dog /ˈhɒt‿dɒɡ/ . A Greek sigma, σ , is used as a wild card for 'syllable', and a dollar/peso sign, $ , marks a syllable boundary where the usual fullstop might be misunderstood.
French phonology is the sound system of French.This article discusses mainly the phonology of all the varieties of Standard French.Notable phonological features include its uvular r, nasal vowels, and three processes affecting word-final sounds:
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech . [ 1 ]
This example illustrates how the aspirated h-word héros prevents the liaison, in which the otherwise-silent word-final consonant would be pronounced before the first vowel of the following word. Because the h is an aspirated h , the second entry is incorrect, as the hiatus prevents the final /z/ from being phonetically realised.
The problem is that many people have difficulty with the IPA. Keeping word spaces helps them parse it. Since the liaison mark indicates resyllabification, there isn't any actual inaccuracy in the current transcription. After all, the space isn't an IPA character, and it doesn't have any phonetic meaning. — kwami 07:16, 30 November 2010 (UTC)