They claim that a vowel is longer before an unvoiced consonant. Yes, but I noticed that vowel length only makes sense in stressed syllables, so as long as you stress the second word in each example this feature can be neglected. Devoicing

I don't know why you would pronunce the last one like a 'z', may be because for native english speakers is natural to say it tha way, but as an Italian student i have to say that there is no difference between those two 's'.

U¿ytkownik (Email Removed) napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci student confuses the spelling for the number 2 (two) with the preposition (to). Homonyms give even native speakers a headache. From my experience as a learner of Russian as compulsory

I have a number of Chinese students, who have great difficulties pronouncing some phonemes such as the consonant "r" . I know how to make Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, ... speaking students to soften their "r" by making them

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Pull, gull, book, put... All the same vowel in my Nottingham accent. I did have a slight suspicion there must be some northern-type UK accents that might use the same vowel for pull and gull. Are all your 'u' vowels short 'oo' type

Pull, gull, book, put... All the same vowel in my Nottingham accent. I did have a slight suspicion there must be some northern-type UK accents that might use the same vowel for ... is an odd one - the consonants seem to affect the vowel a lot.

"Dr Robin Bignall" (Email Removed) wrote in message > Pull, gull, book, put... All the same vowel in my Nottingham accent. I did have a slight suspicion there must be some northern-type UK accents that might use the same vowel for

The maximum onsets principle isn't universally accepted. See http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/syllabif.htm which ... /n/ goes in the third syllable because of stress.) Jonathan Who is Wells? Professor of phonetics at University College