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Hi David,here you can find some stuff about American English. Vowels, consonants, lots of stuff...http://evaeaston.com/pr/home.htmlOn that website there's also a link to this page, where the states are pronounced.http://evaeaston.com/pr/states.htmlIf you need to know how to pronounce a word in...

and an ignorant American would look at British and pronounce practise (Br. spelling) like practize.... Highly unlikely.Americans on the other hand, have been butchering it for centuries and should not be consulted when learning this language. It is, after all, English and not American.Rubbish. ...

Hi, yes, there are books that deal with stress, intonation, and pronunciation. I've read "American Accent Training" by Ann Cook. There's really a lot of stuff in that book (and on the 5 CDs). I haven't tried any other books anyway, so I can only tell you about that one. It treats American...

Hi,I'd like to know if somewhere in the UK there are some features that can be found in American English. I'll try to describe some of the features I'm curious about, I hope you'll understand what I mean, because I won't use phonetic symbols and so my transcriptions won't be accurate. However, I...

According to a book on American English pronunciation ('Lesson 12: Central and Back Vowels', page 136. I don't know the name of the book, though), /a/ is the vowel of father, box or calm. However, almost every dictionary out there establishes a difference between /a:/ and /o/, which would be the...

GUSTAVO ZAPATA CONTRASTIVE PHONETICS CLASS UIVERSITY OF ANTIOQUIA (COLOMBIA) SOME OF THESE SITES MIGHT BE OF SOME HELP ENJOY! VOWELS PETER LADEFOGED USA http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/vowels/chapter3/amengvowels.html VOWELS PETER LADEFOGED...

Hi, I'm having trouble with diphthongs, especially those in words like nice and down. Diphthongs consists of two vowels, so we will consider the first diphthong as /ai/ (nice /nais/), and the second as /au/ (down /daun/). Let's consider /ai/ (as in nice, like and I), which sound is /i/ in...

Hello CJ!Thank you for the tip, but I'd rather learn MM's list and your general principles and exceptions by heart , for the present. And, yes, I happen to be learning American English. I also visit this site every now and then,http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/... and do the physical...

I understand that vowels in the unstressed syllables are often pronounced /ə/ or /I/ . My question is: how do I know when to use /ə/ and when to use /I/? The vowels in unstressed syllables are collectively referred to as schwas, or simply as schwa. When you see a schwa symbol in...

Being deeply involved in sounds of English lanaguge & its phonetics, I wonder if people around could enlighten me bit further by answering the following questions ??? Firstly, I wish to know as EXACTLY, how many sounds are there in English ??? Do we count "diphthongs" as individual...