 Marvin A. wrote: |
| Hmm. Why do you pronounce it like /sɛəŋ/? |
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Umm, I actually don't know, I don't think I really pronounce it like I told you, but I don't think I use /æ/ either. You know, I don't have a fixed accent, and I'll never have one until I start practicing spoken English regularly. My /æ/ sounds before n or m vary a lot... For example, I might pronounce "Damn" as /dɛəm/, maybe more often as /deəm/, with a tendency to /dɪəm/. I could well pronounce "Stand" this way:
http://www.stanford.edu/~eckert/sounds/stand.wav ...I know it's Californian! That file is one of the links on a website about "Northern California Shift"...
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PS: by the way, I just checked what they say on that website (
http://www.stanford.edu/~eckert/vowels.html , where I took "stand"), and they say that feature can be found before
n,
m and
ng too. So that would apply to "sang" too... Curious...