For example, the tutor told me when I say 'seem', it sounds like 'sim'. The same situation may exist in 'shoulder'. The problem may be common for Chinese because chinese syllables are short. Drawling the pronunciation makes

'Round here we use /@/ for a schwa; /&/ is ... consider the pronunciation too obvious to wasteink and paper on. A good online source for BrE phonetics is Cambridge AdvancedLearner's Dictionary at , which uses IPA.For

This is something I've always wondered about. In an American dictionary the word "carver" is pronounced as CAR-v&r (The ampersand is a schwa). 'Round here we use /@/ for a schwa; /&/ is an ash. Both r's are clearly

True. But they share at least one thing in common: they're distinct. And I think they share other things in common too. For example, "ah" is never rounded; "ah" is never to the back of "aw". "Ideal" by

Waddayamean "if". Did Praat ever lie to you before? Praat never lies, It does sometimes, but it's usually easy to tell when it's doing so. When I have any doubt about the credibility of Praat formants, I superimpose formant plots

I'm an American. My "ah" is the furthest back of my low back vowels that I discuss at http://alt-usage-english.org/A vowels.html . It's unmistakably a low back vowel. Sure, but you're a CIC man. No one is denying that you

At the AUE site, there's a page headed "Pronunciation of newsgroup contributors' names". The URL is http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/index.html When you ... the pronunciation that's given to the spelling

(wrt "um") 'erm' Not the same sound at all for me: it's "perm" without the p. I even say both (although 'um' is more likely). Weird. It depends so much on how one learned one's accent. My mother's

Having a native language other than English, I wonder what is the pronunciation of "um"? Is it the same vowel as in "put"? Or is it like in AmE "gum". Or is it just an "m"? My "um" rhymes with

(wrt "um") 'erm' Not the same sound at all for me: it's "perm" without the p. I even say both (although 'um' is more likely). Weird. Having a native language other than English, I wonder what is the