Of immediate interest is the fact that the AmE representative is MIMIM. Professor Peter Ladefoged, the author of the American English piece, says in the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association ... prefer to see AUE accessible to one and

(about sound files for the speech examples in the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association ) Of immediate interest is the fact that the AmE representative is MIMIM. Professor Peter Ladefoged, the author of the American English piece,

Self-Oy! before Bob C. gets to it. "Rhoticity" is the word. Why? Perhaps this comes out of a discussion that I've missed (I've been absent for some time) wherein a general consensus was achieved (that'll be the day), but

How did such accent come about?!! Only a backwardly hierarchal society like the aristocracy-obsessed little old England would go to such lengths in enduring the preposterous, utterly preposterous, vowels and intonation invovled and making it the

What's a "Standard American" dialect? From California? West Virginia? New York? Black? White? Hispanic? Only BizarroRayWise will insist that we have a counterpart to RP. But I'd say the closest thing to a Standard American

Which do you think is better to learn? The one that doesn't require Flash. Other than that, it's up to you. There is no rigid number for the vowels in American English or any other dialect of any language. It all depends on where you draw

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This was triggered by a radio programme on BBC radio 4 yesterday. In Kendall, in England's Lake District, three companies ... Mint Cake *is* a cake (just as my mother will sometimes refer to a bar of soap as a "cake"). Let them eat

I can half understand why we don't say Paree, but why shouldn't English speaking people be able to sort out ... ard' instead of 'Mare lind' (Ok, I can't do Fontanian symbols) and the 'normal' pronunciation of the