Hello, Phonetically, does RP encompass: smoothing? r intrustion? voiceless wh ? glottal /t/ Source: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/x202-1-lecture.pdf Englishuser

Englishuser wrote: When I was talking about 'clipped vowels' I meant that vowels are pronounced in a staccato fashion. Some British English speakers use a glottal stop instead of intervocalic "t", so "better" is pronounced . Is that what you

Carlin wrote: I would like you to help me with this one. How do you produce the endings with -ton, and -tain, like in Trenton,Quinton, mountain and fountain. Please I'd like specific information on how to pronounce those ones. Regards.

Hi LL, I am a native Indonesian speaker, and I don't think the glottal stop is used in either Indonesian or Malay. The /t/ sound that you hear is most probably the unaspiratead /t/ I'd say. You can almost always hear this sound when

Sorry to be lazy and give a web ref, LL; but have you come across this page? It may answer your questions: http://www.answers.com/topic/glottal-stop MrP

I am a native English speaker from central England and about a year ago moved to the north east of England. I'm curious to know if any other languages use the distinctive combined glottal stop and consonant sound that is common here, and what the

Hi, I'm not a Cockney but I was born and bred near London so have heard the accent quite a lot. Do you really need Cockney? I ask as there are not really many people who speak in that accent anyway - certainly not all working-class Londoners.

1. Here it is. 2. Here comes X. Although the /r/ is pronounced in #1, in BrE, it's very light: not at all as strong as the /r/ in "rats", for instance, or the AmE pronunciation of "here". Additionally, this would probably only apply to

Allophones of /t/ in Standard American English I find these symbols the easiest to use without access to an IPA font. They also have the advantage that you can place them right into an English word to illustrate where they are used. (t'oma

To say an unreleased t ('stopped' t, if you will) you place your tongue, lips, and jaw in the position for saying a t, but instead of carrying through with a definite (aspirated, released) t sound, you suddenly stop. You may even stop the sound