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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervocalic_alveolar_flapping /t/ is flapped after a vowel, /r/ and sometimes /l/, and before an unstressed syllable. I'm not sure that there is much difference between flapped /t/ and /d/ in pairs like "latter" - "ladder". These words are distinguished by the vowel...

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...

British English has around 44 sounds (24 Consonants + 7 short vowels + 5 long vowels + 8 diphthongs). I wonder, how many sounds are there in Standard (i.e. ignoring any regional variation) French, German, Spanish, Hindi & Chinese ??? Lastly, which language in the world has the least &...

Some texts speak very loosely when they say there are five vowels. They mean to say that there are five vowel letters (a, e, i, o, u). Actually, y and w are also used as vowel letters. That is, these seven letters and combinations of them are used to represent vowels. A vowel is something...

No, they are not pronunced the same. The vowel in pronunciation is a single vowel, as in "but", whereas it is a diphtong in noun , as in "mouth". You can hear the diphtong by having a look at the following link: http://www.yorku.ca/earmstro/ipa/diphthongs.html Hope that it helps.

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...

Hi! I'm interested in English phonetics and I'd like to ask someone living England about the vowel in these words above - do you use the same diphthong in all of them, or does the vowel before /l/ (e.g. "cold") sound a bit different (more like the American one)? If so, is it an RP feature or...

Hope you don't mind my quoting from a book, Soarer. Old English had a system of long and short vowels and diphthongs...The short vowels have remained relatively constant over the centuries, so that many words are pronounced today as they were in Old English: fisc "fish", aet "at"...The...

This is more than you asked for. Use what you can! Tense (long) vowels, diphthongs: Lake, leaf, pine cone, cool brown soil. pay day deep freeze dry rye rowboat blue moon downtown boys' toys Lax (short) vowels: Fat pet pig got drunk -- took walk. rat trap red neck...