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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 t o, s t at'is t ics, wi.tness, bo tt om,...

I understand that vowels in the unstressed syllables are often pronounced /ə/ or /I/ . My question is: how do I know when to use /ə/ and when to use /I/? The vowels in unstressed syllables are collectively referred to as schwas, or simply as schwa. When you see a schwa symbol in...

It's not regional (except insofar as it seems to me to be more AmE than BrE) and not sloppy, in my opinion -- unless you want to say also that British speakers who say "choon" for "tune" are sloppy. It is "glide absorption", and it is the sine qua non of authentic American...

Randy_Tam wrote: I am only taking Mandarin as a complusory second language credit course, my L1 being Cantonese Chinese, now considered a 'dialect' for no justifiable reasons, as there has never been a clear distinction drawn between a 'dialect' and a 'language': do the 2 not share the very...

HaffiezMike wrote: I recently wrote an article on Wikipedia about Malaysian English but I'm not sure if all are 100% grammatically correct can someone check for me? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_English or here : Malaysian English From Wikipedia, the free...

I recently wrote an article on Wikipedia about Malaysian English but I'm not sure if all are 100% grammatically correct can someone check for me? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_English or here : Malaysian English From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation ,...

Being deeply involved in sounds of English lanaguge & its phonetics, I wonder if people around could enlighten me bit further by answering the following questions ??? Firstly, I wish to know as EXACTLY, how many sounds are there in English ??? Do we count "diphthongs" as individual...

Hello. This site could help you to articulate American English, it has detailed pictures of the tongue and the mouth when pronouncing the differents sounds www.uiowa.edu/%7Eacadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html Hope it helps.

The basic problem is 'interference'. This is what we bring from L1 to the L2 situation. It can be word order, vocabulary, misuse of cognates, phonetics, etc. A few examples: English speakers have problems with L2 because we reduce most unaccented syllables to schwa; most other languages are...

Hi Faintest Scent, I'm from HK, so I think I understand where you're coming from. Until 1997, a British accent was deemed highly desirable in HK (Pygmalion syndrome). My parents made me listen to a bunch of British audio tapes. (The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. ) That helped...