By Accents, Glottals

Hmm, can I answer even though I am not a native speaker? I would say "thee eagle" because I learned to pronounce it "thee" before vowel sounds. Words like "university" and "wall" don't really start with a vowel sound, but with "semivowels", I...

I don't know whether some call it lazy or not, but I know it's a feature of several accents (also Scottish?). And yeah, I think I heard that young people are switching to glottal stops even in areas where they wouldn't be expected to pick up that feature. Go figure.

That what I call a "British accent that doesn't sound awful, affected, formal", so an accent that I like. Good choice! The good thing I noticed right away was his glottal stops instead of T's. And T's are not pronounced at the end of a word either. The other consonants are...

Heh, I know in the UK there are lots of interesting accents. Some people drop this, skip that, shift vowels here, put glottal stops there... Different accent in different places, different social groups, different age groups... It's so in the US too, and in other countries too, I guess....

Anonymous wrote:It really bugs me the way Americans say a 'British' accent because more than one country makes up Britain, there is England, Scotland, and Wales, all of which have very different accents. Then of course all three countries have many regional accents which are again very...

Hi,I read Nona's new post earlier, but... where is it now? I can't see it anymore. It was a post with a link to a website where you could listen to IPA sounds (for British English).Well, I heard a lot of words pronounced with a clear consonant sound at the end. I thought of posting this:What are...

Yeah, it took me a little to figure out that bo?l was actually bottle, and the t's were glottal stops, lol. I understood because they said "a bo?l of wine", so I figured it out. I think it's normal if you're only used to certain accents (I'm only used to American English).

Damn I always knew my pronounciation wasn't ok, I just tried to reduce my bad Italian accent. I learned to recognize some features, the main features (shown on that book on accent training). The main features are liaisons, tapped t's, glottal stops, dark l's, n's that disappears after t's, h's...

Marvin A. wrote:Well, Kooyeen, here's how I pronounce them.Thank you so much for reading my post. The way I see it, the difference between stressed can and can't is a glottal stop in production, and no difference in perception (the tongue moves in a slightly different way when pronouncing, but...

Hi,would you notice the difference between the answers in this conversation?- Can I move my home path to another partition without formatting?- I think you can. / I think you can't.I can distinguish between can and can't when can is not stressed (so it's "kun"), but I think there's no way to...