Phonetic rules usually apply universally regardless of the language in question. For example, it's easier to pronounce the m sound before a p , b and m sound and therefore we have words like impossible, imbibe, and impolite instead of

I don't understand what you mean, it's just that "would do it" and "will do it" both sound somewhere around /wʊdːʉɪt/ to me, in connected speech. Maybe the difference lies in the vowel... I susped the vowel in

Dear friend, glides are sounds produced with little or no obstruction of the airstream that are preceded or followed by a vowel. If they are followed by vowels, they are called on-glides , as in woo, where /w/ is an on-glide. If these sounds are

syllable Segment of speech usually consisting of a vowel with or without accompanying consonant sounds (e.g., a , I , out , too , cap , snap , check ). A syllabic consonant, like the final n sound in button and widen , also constitutes a syllable.

Samuraifingers: I'm sorry if I made it seem like I was expecting a professional assessment of my pronunciation. I am really only looking for brief comments such as "this or that vowel has the wrong quality" or "too much

The conventional teaching is that the vowels are AEIOU and sometimes Y. Y is a consonant in Yet and Yoghurt. It is a vowel in City and Candy. W is a consonant in Woman and Wine. W is part of a diphthong in words like PAWN, FAWN, FOWL, FEW My ESL

As per phonetics theory, I've been told one should use the indefinite article "a" before words beginning with a consonant and "an" before words beginning with a vowel or a diphthong. And the sound "y" ( or / j /

Hey CB, how about ? Seven, , , ten. Hi Jackson, vowel letters are A, E, I, O, U. Vowel sounds are all those sounds you use while speaking that are not consonants. The most common vowel sound in English is the schwa (IPA symbol: /ə/). IPA is the

diphthong: (phonetics) a combination of two vowel sounds or vowel letters monophthong: a speech sound that consists of only one vowel sound triphthong: a combination of three vowel sounds or vowel letters The above definitions use the expressions

Definitions from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary: diphthong: (phonetics) a combination of two vowel sounds or vowel letters monophthong: a speech sound that consists of only one vowel sound triphthong: a combination of three vowel