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.

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 /

Yes, there are regional variations in American English. Do you know which accent is chosen by MW as the reference in the pronunciation keys. Is it General American? My problem is that, as I have mentioned before, they are indeed denoted

Dear all I am having some pronunciation problems. 1. When saying some words like "Image Shack", do we make any linking between the /dz/ (last diphthong of "Image") and /sh/ (first diphthong of "Shack"), or do we just pronounce the two words

LPD offers 3 pronunciations: The 1 st one (Main BrE) is with the first ‘o’ as a diphthong as in the word ‘show’(/ b /), the ‘y’ as a semivowel as in ‘city’ (/i/), the second ‘o’ as a schwa; the alternative BrE is to pronounce the ‘o’ as in ‘hot’

Well, well, my friend. I just checked. You are right. In the transcriptions that I have found and could remember they transcribe, for example, Tzigane as , which means that the standard English transcription system have no special sign for tz in

Is the /w/ of "wind" the same sound as the /w/ of "out"? The reason I ask is that most dictionaries use different symbols to represent these sounds; the /w/ of "wind" is shown as a consonant and the /w/ of "out" is shown as part of the

So too for me. "Theater" and "idea" (each two syllables) are, Ithink, the only words where I have a diphthong /i@/. Really? Did you mean to exclude words where that sound does not have primary stress (e.g. "area",

Irma > misc.education.language.english in '. Note that this only describes a small subset of the transcription system. There are far more sounds (used in other languages) and nuances of sound that can be captured. See the document