Connected speech introduces the reduction of phonemes as it affects sounds at the phonemic level, therefore resulting in the elision of either vowels or consonant sounds. Sounds are usually elided due to the increased tempo as opposed to the slow tempo in which, words are pronounced when they are production in their citation form. This allows words to connect together, creating a rather informal register which may be unclear to non-native speakers of the English language. The most commonly elided sounds are the alveolar plosives [t] and [d], where in connected speech pronunciation becomes more relaxed, and the pace becomes accelerated. For example, when the following words are produced in isolation, the [t] is always prominently
