By Vowels, Glottals

Hmm, can I answer even though I am not a native speaker? I would say "thee eagle" because I learned to pronounce it "thee" before vowel sounds. Words like "university" and "wall" don't really start with a vowel sound, but with "semivowels", I...

Heh, I know in the UK there are lots of interesting accents. Some people drop this, skip that, shift vowels here, put glottal stops there... Different accent in different places, different social groups, different age groups... It's so in the US too, and in other countries too, I guess....

Hi,"writer" doesn't sound like "wider", it sounds like "rider".Anyway, T's are sometimes tapped. It usually happens when T's are between two vowels and the following vowel is not stressed at all (not even a secondary stress on it). Example: Betty bought a bit of...It often happens in other cases...

CalifJim wrote: You realize, I'm sure, that the g in final ng is silent. It is only a marker to change the usual sound of 'n' to a velar nasal sound instead. It's farther back than your Italian gn but in the same general family of sounds. I know, it thought it was like the N in "anche"...

I don't think my "er" rhymes with my "cur"; the vowel in the former seems to be glottal. MrP

Hi,I read Nona's new post earlier, but... where is it now? I can't see it anymore. It was a post with a link to a website where you could listen to IPA sounds (for British English).Well, I heard a lot of words pronounced with a clear consonant sound at the end. I thought of posting this:What are...

Bldudas: thanks so much. I'll def. check them out. I've been staying up all night browsing the web for sites that can help me. You cannot recognise US accents? Where are the people from you hear? You should be able to recognise New York and Boston. Maybe not Philadelphia. Well, I might...

You can do just an unreleased T or an unreleased T with a glottal stop. I don't have the statistics, but it seems to me that just the glottal stop is less common. I don't know what you mean by held. You use that word a lot. Do you mean "held back", like unreleased? I hear more of a...

Hi again,I'm so sorry, I should have read CalifJim's post about T's a little more carefully before posting. I see that there's also a glottal stop after R's, so the t in "smart" or "cart" is held. I see that there's a glottal stop (but sometimes it's not complete) after L and N, for example in...

Hi,I know a final T in American English is usually a glottal stop when it comes after a vowel sound. I'm not sure when it comes after some other sounds, though...net - gl. stop, I knowcart, short - ? I think it's a gl. stop tooconnect - ? I think this is not a gl. stopbolt - ? Umm, this is in...