In Teaching English^x, Vowels^x

The schwas are sometimes notated in dictionaries as full vowels (like the first "i" in discussion) when most people say the schwa that is closest to that full vowel. Every editor of every dictionary makes his or her own choice about the way such cases will be symbolized. There is...

Hello, Lukas One of the best books I've read on pronunciation is Daniel Jones' "An Outline of English Phonetics". It's a rather old book, but it's very very good. I don't know if it's out of print now, but I'm sure you'll be able to find it in a library, or in a used-books store. The book deals...