“…), insertion ( We are said as We yar ), modification ( can't you as can chew ), and reductions (such as the consistent reduction of vowels in function words), all of which occur alone or in combination (Alameen & Levis in 2015). During the third wave revival of pronunciation teaching in the mid-1980s, research into CSPs, especially linking, was carried out by Henrichsen (1984) and Hieke (1984, 1987). Highly salient CSPs (e.g., gonna, wanna, whaddya ) also gained pedagogical attention from Weinstein (1982).…”