Assimilation is defined as the process of replacing a sound by another sound under the influence of a third

sound which is near to it in the world or sentence.

Kinds of assimilation:

-Historical assimilation: we mean an assimilation which has taken in the course of development of a
language and by which a world which was once pronounced in a certain way came to be pronounced
subsequently in another way. For example: picture / ‘piktju/ /’pikt /

-Contextual assimilation: we mean one which is occasion when words are juxtaposed in a sentence, or in
the formation of compounds and by which a word comes to have a pronunciation different from that which
it has when said by itself. For example: Don´t you /

-Progressive assimilation: it occurs when an initial sound of the second word is affected by the last sound
of the preceded word. For example: I told you /

-Regressive assimilation: it occurs when the initial sound of the word affects the final sound of the preceding
word. For example: not possible /

Assimilation

T changes to /P/ before M B or P. For example: N changes to before K or G. For example:

basket maker, mixed bag, cigarette paper. tone control, Action Group.

D changes to /B/ before M B or P. For example: S changes to before For example: dress
blood pain, good morning, blood brother. shop, this year.

N changes to /M/ before M B or P. For example: Z changes to before or For example:

Iron Man, open book, brown paper. cheese shop is young.

T changes to /K/ before K or G. For example: changes to /S/ before S. For example: earth
credit card, fat girl. science.

B changes to /G/ before K or G. For example: bird

cold, bad girl.

Estuary English is a new kind of English that's due to take over as a new standard English. The term Estuary
English was coined as long ago as 1984 by David Rosewarn, an EFL teacher. Estuary English is to be heard
in the House of Commons, the city, the civil service, the local government, the media, advertising, and the
medical and teaching professions in the south-east of England. Estuary English is a new name. But it is not
a new phenomenon. It is the continuation of a trend that has been going on for 500 years or more. It’s a
variety of RP.

Features:

 L vocalisation: pronouncing /l/ like a /w/. For example: football

 Glottalling: it’s the use of the glottal stop to replace /t/ in certain position. For example: /teik i? of/
 HappY-tensing: it makes the last /i/ sound longer. For example: /
 Yod coalescence: it replaces the /tj/ by /t / and /dj/ by /d /. For example:

EE does not involve:

o H- dropping
o Th- fronting