I just thought ealrier today that "th" and "d" in fast unclear speech must be indistinguishable, after I heard something on youtube. I'll try to find it again. (EDIT: On second thought I think that depends a lot on the

Hey! That's a little tricky. You can say CAN AS /kæn/ and kɛn as weakened, but you can pronounce the negative the same way in fast speech. all depends on the context. That's the reason you sometimes hear "I can't do it the same

I know, when speaking, some letters change its sounds(at the end of previous and beginning of next word), omit... Please, explain me with examples how it happens in spoken English. There's a lot to say. I don't know what exactly you are

What is the guttoral stop ? I have assumed it to be the 'g' sound some folk use to pronounce words like 'nothing' (nothing-k) Is this a regionalism or simply poor English ? If you are French (in exile in the Western Cape),

The pronunciaton of 't' as 'd', particularly in casual speech, is a feature of many varieties of English. In south-east England, of course, sloppy 't' becomes a glottal stop, and in north-west England it becomes

Both conditions are necessary.We may now list the rule that adds glottal stops before syllable final /p, t, k/, as in pronunications of "tip, pit, kick" as (tI?p, pI?t, kI?k)... This rule does not apply to all varieties of English. Some

Hi everybody, In one of my classes, I am doing ... post it here. Thank you in advance for any help! If you think about the meanings of "allophone" and "phoneme," you'll realize this is an impossible request. What

I couldn't see a glottal stop, nor even the "velaric", but could settle for alveolar(ic?). No "ic". I get more of a "cluck" sound if I move the stop backwards from the alveolae. That would be a palatal (or

But I think your "oy" is what I know as "oi!", an interjection that I closely associate with white-supremacist Nazi skinheads, especially if they have Cockney accents. Time for some thread drift: in a novel I read recently by

Redundancy of the week: a reporter spoke of the "official state visit" made by GWB. OED has 'state visit, a visit by a head of state to a foreign country for ceremonial rather than official purposes' so it seems a 'state