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It s rather hard to work out quite what you are looking for here Some of these features as Marvin A was pointing out are not specifically American English pronunciation but the allophonic variation that occurs in connected speech That is the pronunciation of some sounds is influenced by the...

CalifJim So do you have mostly a Northern accent or a Western accent now Have you picked up the cot caught merger yet or did you come from the cot caught merged region of the North Do you have the California vowel shift or the Northern cities vowel shift

Hi Marvin A In fact the only noticeable differences is that they leave out their r s at the end of words and pronounce æ as A sometimes Well there are some other differences as well ranging from how the dark l is used to how the vowels and diphthongs are realised I am sure we could make a long...

I ve always wanted to ask Marvin what kind of accent that is The pronunciation of diphthongs as monophthongs is known but I ve never heard of a bag bang beg vague merger Maybe it s some southern dialect or a feature of some Ebonics varieties I really don t know I m not an expert in accents I just...

Hi ForbesAlthough RP is more rooted in the South than the North I still maintain that it s not originally a Southern accent but an interregional fusion It has some characteristics of Southern speech pronunciation of the u a diphthong for the o of go differentation of the a between back and bath...

Thank you for your replies these days I m trying to improve my pronunciation a little I m reading American Accent Training by Ann Cook I also have the audio files CalifJim wrote As for the second component it is often some intermediate sound between ee and i feel bit for ai or some intermediate...

Hi I m having trouble with diphthongs especially those in words like nice and down Diphthongs consists of two vowels so we will consider the first diphthong as ai nice nais and the second as au down daun Let s consider ai as in nice like and I which sound is i in that diphthong I ve always...

Sorry this will probably be a really long post My mission To dispell false notions about American English First we do NOT say drug as the past tense of drag It s dragged There are only three kinds of Americans who would say this Young children who have not yet mastered the grammatical nuances of...

nq 2 I was brought up in Bournemouth My accent is more although there are some West Country influences in the diphthongs nq nq 1 I believe there are several Southern English accents though How would you call the Southern English accent of the educated middle class nq Hang about here just a...

nq 2 To be clear about it I say v U kab l ri to see a dictionary which doesn t give it as standard nq nq 1 The latter is roughly how I pronounce the word except that the first syllable is never a diphthong If I m long German o the latter is the usual Irish way of pronouncing the sound...