I noticed that the Artscroll siddur puts a line in אל-בני | ישראל at the beginning of the third parsha of Shema, which tells you not to merge the words together. Are they correct?
The yud at the end of בני is not pronounced, it's a nach nistar. It does sound like a yud, but if the following letter was one of בגדכפ"ת, it wouldn't have a dagesh (first example that comes to my head: בני גד and בני דן at the end of Naso). That indicates that to the contrary, the words are supposed to be merged together.
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