When native speakers of English speak, they are usually very quick and use a stream of words which most of the time have very few pauses between them. This natural way of speaking, said to be fluent and connected, is governed by some phonological processes. EFL (English as a foreign language) learners who have constructed different habits within the language generally have receptive difficulties caused by these phonological aspects. The most commonly used are assimilation (contiguous sounds which take on one and other's features), elision (sounds which are omitted or not uttered), and linking...