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Hi,I know that an "a" sound as in "cat" usually is pronunced differently before n's or m's. It becomes a kind of diphthong (/ɪə/, /eə/ or /ɛə/). Example: Damn ---> could be /deəm/Now the question is: does this happen with "e" sounds like in "bed"? I always hear millions of different ways of...
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Re: Canadians and their English
General Canadian English is extremely similar to General American English. However, there are a number of differences between the two dialects. Firstly, GCE (General Canadian English) exhibits a linguistic phenomenon called Canadian Raising. Basically, the diphthong “ai”--as in "by" or "lie"--is...
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Re: pronunciation
/mAr\oU/ doesn't make sense Well, see, she only speaks English not Italian, so when she sees the word Mauro, in English, "au" is often pronounced as /A/* for example: audience, auction, she assumes that "Mauro" should have the /A/ vowel. The "r" of course is pronounced as a retroflex "r" of...
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Re: Cote D'livore
Marvin A. wrote:>> Now, said with a Southern French accent, it becomes , it should be less confusing for you. The French ‘o’ in ‘Côte’ isn’t a diphthong – it rhymes with ‘caught’ in RP. The Provençals, however, say it as ‘cot’ in RP.
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1 yr 174 days ago
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Re: Cote D'livore
>> Now, said with a Southern French accent, it becomes and / / marks represent IPA or X-SAMPA transcription.I would pronounce "cote d'ivoire" as /kot divwA/.
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Re: tight and tied
Some dialects also use a different diphthong for those: tight Also, the vowel is longer on the second one.
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Re: American Eng. features in the UK
Marvin A. wrote:>> z sound + y = s as in pleasure (for example, the s in "as you know" sounds like the s in pleasure) <<>> s + y = sh (this year ----> this sheer) <<These two are actually not found in General American, especially the first one.>> American "o"...
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Re: American Eng. features in the UK
>> z sound + y = s as in pleasure (for example, the s in "as you know" sounds like the s in pleasure) <<>> s + y = sh (this year ----> this sheer) <<These two are actually not found in General American, especially the first one.>> American "o" (not, god, cop,...
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Re: phonetic transcribing
Oh ok. By the way Richard, you weren't using IPA either though. Check your diphthong on the word "haus": to be consistent in the system you were using it should be "haUs", which would be , but that may just be my dialect.
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Re: phonetic transcribing
Some things to keep in mind:? = glottal stop@ = əI don't know what your dialect sounds like, but I can tell you how mine differs from others:-Notice that I use lots of glottal stops (the ?). If your dialect pronounces them as "t's", then replace all the ?'s with in most other dialects--but then...
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