In Dialects^x, Fricatives^x

Hi, The English /v/ is a voiced labiodental fricative. I find it difficult to distinguish between this sound and the voiced labiodental approximant /ʋ/, which is found in some other languages and as an alternative to /ɹ/ in some English dialects. How does one make this distinction? Is there any...

I don't know what dialect of English this article is talking about, but it's not mine. I don't pronounce /f/ and /v/ as occlusives in any environment. Their "lenition" isn't true for me either - /p/ /b/ /k/ and /g/ are not pronounced as fricatives in my speech, in any environment. It mentions...

I would like to add that the above post was really intended to go in the main thread about the British Library Archive of English Accents and Dialects. Phonetics is very scientific and objective in its description of sounds. All sounds are mapped to an international system of symbols, and are...

It is true that English has the phonotactic constraint that every word must contain a vowel. Orthographically, "y" may symbolize either a consonant, or a vowel (or a "semi-consonant" if you consider glides as such) However, it is NOT true that every language requires every word to contain a...

Yes, I do sound a little like John Wayne, pardner. No need to get in a twist, King-- my tongue is obviously doing something back there: it is all tensed up, controlling the air flow and who knows what-all. The discussion, however, is intended to get foreign students to differentiate their /r/...