By Pronunciation, Allophones

Hi Cool Breeze, How's is pronounced . Traditionally, the RP pronunciation has been /haʊsIz/, although I suppose some speakers equate the vowel sound with that of 'beat' (half-long) these days.

>> whereas the General American pronunciation is /I'moudiKa:n/. d = flapped /t/<< Interesting. I would say it with a are allophones of the same vowel, and would not affect the meaning, so since you are using / / notation, you can't mark in the vowel length.

I think we're moving into the realm of allophones now, which isn't a bad place to go... If we consider the word 'be', then there are at least two different pronunciations of 'be'. The first being /bi/ as in "I'll be there at 8pm" versus the stronger form /biː/ as in "The verb 'to be' which is...

In my opinion, foreign students are taught the pronunciation of words according to the their first entry in the Pronunciation Dictionary (John Wells' Pronunciation Dictionary or Daniel Johns' English Pronouncing Dictionary - these two hold a good reputation in the field). I believe that the first...