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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 used...

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 students...

Hello there! My name is Priya and I am from Suriname. I study the English Language. I remember one subject I had to concentrate on very hard. It was about phonetics. I can inform you that it is not easy to detemine exactly how many vowels there are in English. American speakers have about 16...

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 LADEFOGED...

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...

Hello CJ!Thank you for the tip, but I'd rather learn MM's list and your general principles and exceptions by heart , for the present. And, yes, I happen to be learning American English. I also visit this site every now and then,http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/... and do the physical...

Can any teacher tell the rigth way to produce the sound of comparable? Looking at the KK phonetic symbol printed next to this word, its sound is streessed on the first vowel. However, I sometimes hear people produce the sound like com'parable not 'comparable. Which is better? Please...

Can any teacher tell the rigth way to produce the sound of comparable? Looking at the KK phonetic symbol printed next to this word, its sound is streessed on the first vowel. However, I sometimes hear people produce the sound like com'parable not 'comparable. Which is better? Please...

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 right,...

not every word that begins with a vowel has an initial vowel sound I agree with the content of your post. I would like to suggest, however, that the bare term "vowel" is less precise in this context than either "vowel letter" or "vowel graph", or, in the case of sound, "vowel sound" (as you...