On 10-Aug-2004, Mxsmanic (Email Removed) wrote in message (Email Removed): The length of vowels in English is not phonemic; that is, you can be understood whether you pronounce vowels long ... In English, /i/ is usually long and /I/ is usually

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

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

If you say that to me, you say nothing. As a description of a sound, "aw" has no useful meaning. It seems pretty clear to me that Richard means that your "ah" sounds like a vowel that, if he himself said it, he would prefer to

If you say that to me, you say nothing. As a description of a sound, "aw" has no useful meaning. It seems pretty clear to me that Richard means that your "ah" sounds like a vowel that, if he himself ... speech), but he is

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

My "um" rhymes with "gum", except the vowel can be extended. Ah, that's what I expected. MWCD11 has two pronunciations, " a prolonged m sound, @m." This makes me suspect that it is a word like "ahem,"

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