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Hi,there are several different ways to classify vowels (also tense vs lax, for example). What I call vowel length is what is considered in linguistics, I think. It's the difference you hear in General American English between the vowel in GOT and the vowel in GOD, which is the same but in...

/ɛ/ and /e/ (or /eI/ or other variations depending on dialect and position), generally contrast. Bet /bɛt/ and bait /bet/ are distinguished. However, before certain consonants such as /r\/, the distinction between tense and lax vowels is neutralized. Therefore any tense or lax vowel before...

>> PLAY - I always say /plei/, but here you can hear /plɛi/ > BEAR - I always say /ber/, but here you can hear /bɛr/ << According to Wikipedia, before /r\/, in American English " however--but that affects all my /E/'s.

Kooyeen, there is something that you should know. While it is true that North American English has tense-lax neutralization before /r\/, thus , so why did you decided to switch to #3 instead of #3? Btw, since you do have a Western accent, and many Westerners have the CVS, and those that don't...

Englishuser wrote:Hi Marvin A., You wrote: It's associated with California English and Valley girls for the most part. Valley girls? It would be nice to learn something more about the Valley girl dialect/accent of North American English. I hope you, Marvin, can help me out. EnglishuserIt's...

I'm not familiar with MLB. In American English it is very common to omit the "t" when it follows a stressed syllable ending in "n" and precedes an unstressed syllable beginning with a vowel. "winter" and "winner" are indistinguishable. The absence of the t sound here is not an aspirated...

This is more than you asked for. Use what you can! Tense (long) vowels, diphthongs: Lake, leaf, pine cone, cool brown soil. pay day deep freeze dry rye rowboat blue moon downtown boys' toys Lax (short) vowels: Fat pet pig got drunk -- took walk. rat trap red neck chip...

... would you please tell me how would you pronounce "ship" ? would it be like " shape" The vowel sound in "ship" is completely different in American English from the vowel sound in "shape". __________ I'm not aware of any difference in the pronunciation of the "e" in "marketing" whether...

If you need a detailed description for American English, here's something I came across in some old notes of mine. It's got some exercises at the end too! The phonetic transcriptions aren't really anything standard, but I think you can figure them out. Past tense of Regular Verbs Phonetic...

The verb "get" came from the Old North "geta" and the verb inflected like; geta - gat - getten. The past participle "getten" or "gotten" (a new variant of "getten" generated by vowel shift) had been used down to the 16th century. However, during the 17th century, the past tense form "got" (which...