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Lamby: So I win, huh? Assimilation is when a sound changes the pronunciation of another sound. It mostly changes just the place of articulation.
Ten birds is actually in rapid speech said : tem birds
That's because /n/ is a voiced, alveolar, nasal sound and /b/ is voiced, bilabial, nasal. When they come together, /n/ changes into /m/ which is voiced, bilabial, nasal.
As you can see, it is easier to pronounce /m/ and then /b/ than /n/ and then /b/.
Now see if you can get it about my other examples.
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