Would have asked … woulda asst

Hi Dharmendra,

Glad you liked the post. You asked:

By the way, I am not sure how ‘I woulda asked you’ be spoken. What will actually happen … between the two vowels underlined in the ‘jungle’ version?

What can happen is that there will be no consonant at all at the end of ‘have’ which will exist only as an almost inaudible schwa and which will glide into the vowel at the start of ‘asked’.

Let me demonstrate. Here is the greenhouse version of ‘Would have asked’

Here is the garden version of ‘Would have asked’ (as in the list of reduced forms)

Here is a jungle version (one of many) as part of the speech unit in which the words ‘I’ and ‘HIM’ are prominent, and the words ‘would have asked’ are non-prominent.

|| I would have asked HIM || 

And here is the ‘would have asked’ from that last version:

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