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Hi, this is interesting, it reminds me of something I read in a book for improving pronunciation (the famous "American Accent Training"). The title of the paragraph is "Spoon or Sboon?" She (the author) say: "Say spoon. Now say sboon. Hear how they sound the same?" This is similar to your p/b...

Hi again, Is there a term for such a phenomenon? The nearest I can come is 'gemination'. This is from the Latin term related to twins. It means 1. Doubling, duplicating, pairing, repeating. This seems relevant to our topic. 2. It also means, in phonetics, the doubling of a...

8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “ She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation) The article an is used before vowel sounds, not vowel letters. The word one is pronounced wun . The w is not a vowel sound even though the o in o-n-e is a vowel. So a must be...

Nestor_fes wrote: 8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “ She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation). Although 'one' begins with a vowel, it is pronounced with the sound of a consonant - 'w'. 9. Miss Justine Fair listened to the two Chilean...

Hi, in Italy, most people (and I could say "almost everyone") don't even know that live and leave are pronounced differently. They pronounce both of them like leave . Anyway, when I started to correct my pronunciation I often pronounced both of them like live , because I tended to...

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...

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 international phonetic symbol is (I've looked,...

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,...

You cannot aspirate a t (or any letter) at the beginning of a word, because aspirating means letting out all your breath. Actually, no. Aspiration is typically found in the word-initial position. In fact, this is from the Wikipedia article you cite: English voiceless stop consonants...

Thanks once again! CalifJim wrote: You heard correctly: derision and vision have the /Z/ sound. mansion and pension have the /S/ sound. The "s" is intervocalic in the first two of these (between vowels); the "s" is between the consonant "n" and the vowel "i" in mansion and pension . All...