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General Canadian English is extremely similar to General American English. However, there are a number of differences between the two dialects. Firstly, GCE (General Canadian English) exhibits a linguistic phenomenon called Canadian Raising. Basically, the diphthong “ai ” --as in "by" or...

Yeah, I knew that's what he meant. He must speak a language that has final consonant devoicing, or no voice-voiceless distinction in word final position, or a language that has no /z/.

/ɛ/ and /e/ (or /eI/ or other variations depending on dialect and position), generally contrast. Bet /bɛt/ and bait /bet/ are distinguished. However, before certain consonants such as /r\/, the distinction between tense and lax vowels is neutralized. Therefore any tense or lax vowel before /r\/...

Where V symbolizes a vowel letter and C a consonant letter, and bold letters indicate stress: ---C V C > ---C V CCing, ---C V CCed ( occur, occurring, occurred; expel, expelling, expelled; ... ) ---CVC > ---CVCing, ---CVCed ( wither, withering, withered; cancel, canceling, cancelled;...

I'm not quite sure I understand your symbols. For one thing, North American English doesn't really distinguish vowel length, vowel phonemes are realized as long vowel allophones before voiced consonant phonemes in the coda of a syllable. Secondly, is the open front unrounded vowel

>> hat, bat, bad, bag, ad, add << In some dialects ad, add and or bag would not work. If you're learning North American English, you could use the Inland North pronunciation of , thus "measure" would be pronounced as "maysure".

of always has the 'v' sound at the end except in (typically faster) informal conversation, where the 'v' is sometimes dropped when the following word begins with a consonant, 'of' then being identical in sound to the word 'a'. Help! Help! An alligator's got a hold of me! (a hold a me)...

In ago , compared to love , the sound is the same , but unstressed and briefer in ago . This sound, called the schwa sound, is also found in stressed form in words like but and cup , month and son . Stressed, it is also called "short u". In bird , the ir together gives a new sound unlike...

To tell you the truth, I've never heard any foreigner (unless they learned English when they were very young, or had lived in an English speaking country for at least a decade, and had extensive, and personalized accent coaching) ever be able to pull off either an American or British accent....

GUSTAVO ZAPATA CONTRASTIVE PHONETICS CLASS UIVERSITY OF ANTIOQUIA (COLOMBIA) SOME OF THESE SITES MIGHT BE OF SOME HELP ENJOY! VOWELS PETER LADEFOGED USA http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/vowels/chapter3/amengvowels.html VOWELS PETER...