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Consider this: if there
weren’t a pairing between a semantic structure and a phonological structure, we
wouldn’t be able to recognize what we hear, or we wouldn’t be able to convey
ideas in communication.
It is a commonplace, for
instance, to see in English textbooks at least one exercise trying to explain
to students than can is pronounced without a vowel, that /d/ in could is
assimilated to the sound in the next word (a verb, if there is no adverb to be
placed in between)...
But the best thing to do
is to listen and judge for yourselves.
And, in so doing, try
your listening comprehension abilities.
The following recording
is related to the exercises in the previous post. It would be better to do that
first, and then come back to #91.
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