http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aVowels+tag%3aPronunciation+tag%3aOnlineSearch results for 'tag:Vowels tag:Pronunciation tag:Online' matching tags 'Vowels', 'Pronunciation', and 'Online'en-USXMOD (Build: 3614.32638)http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowPronouncePacinoScorsese-Sean/3/dnzmm/Post.htm#806429Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:13:16 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:806429tanitI won't argue with you, of course you're right, you're a native Italian! You can argue! After all, Italian has many variants and I can speak only for mine. After doing some search on the internet, I've found this dictionary where you can listen to the pronunciation of ro s a and to that of s ole (just type one word in the box, click on the result and press the red arrow next to the phonetic trancription of the word in the pop-up). I've also managed to find an easy list of rules to help you decide whether s should pronounced /s/ or /z/. This allows for an explanation of the pronunciation of the three s's in Scorsese : The first one is pronounced /s/ because it's at the beginning of the word (also,...http://www.englishforums.com/English/NotAboutCienfuegos/3/lzqcw/Post.htm#949131Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:00:20 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:949131rzedIf you say that to me, you say nothing. As a description of a sound, "aw" has no useful meaning. It seems pretty clear to me that Richard means that your "ah" sounds like a vowel that, if he himself ... speech), but he is giving nonzero information (namely, the way his own ear interprets a particular vowel in your speech). Given the current state of technology, it seems that Bob's argument can be addressed by other means. There are online dictionaries that have audio pronunciation of their words, including both "aw" and "ah". When I listen to the Webster's online versions for those two words, I hear the sounds I am referring to when I use those spellings to describe the sounds. To find out...http://www.englishforums.com/English/NotAboutCienfuegos/2/lzqcw/Post.htm#948610Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:31:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:948610al in dallasAt the AUE site, there's a page headed "Pronunciation of newsgroup contributors' names". The URL is http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/index.html When you ... the pronunciation that's given to the spelling "aw" in dictionaries, which is the vowel (O), the open-mid back rounded vowel. (snip) As I said in a thread named "Conjure": (snip) (you know, the British or Western American aw-like "ah". To the best of my memory, R.J. and Professor Fontana (and others) have discussed that the standard *American* "ah" sound does not seem to have a symbol assigned to it. I use '(A")' as was suggested in one such previous thread. The "British or Western American...http://www.englishforums.com/English/ComprehensiveListAllophonesEnglish-Phonemes/kkwdb/post.htm#889779Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:14:46 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:889779skittThat's neutralization to an archiphoneme, rather than allophony, but whyever would you use (S) in "Asia"? What other consonants do you devoice between vowels? "Pronunciation: 'A-zh&, -sh&" so they are presumably putting my pronunciation second. I didn't check a BrE dictionary, however I have ... can't think of another word that has the 'asia' combination - the closest I can get to it is 'fuchsia'. Euthanasia. The online M-W says that it has 87 others, but it displays only the first 10. Skitt (in Hayward, California) www.geocities.com/opus731/http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImLookingNativeSpeaker/2/hzhpb/Post.htm#612651Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:38:14 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:612651patrick lecordier"Molly Mockford" (Email Removed) a écrit dans le message de : Why is it a university, but an umbilical cord? Because of the pronunciation, not the spelling. University is pronounced Yooniversity (i.e. a consonant-sound rather than a vowel-sound), which means ... as the second person singular. I fear that this may confuse rather than assist, but the intention is to help! "I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." - Duke Ellington websites: http://www.erp.oissel.onac.org/anglais/ - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/patrick.lecordier/http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongAOrShortAVowelSound/2/jqvlk/Post.htm#849009Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:54:30 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:849009bob cunninghamI think it might be an idea to have something on the website about "short" and "long" vowels, because there does seem to be some confusion about this. Long and short vowels (in the layman's sense of "long" and "short") are illustrated to some extent on the AUE Web site at http://tinyurl.com/eggg *. The confusion arises because there are two disparate meanings of "long" and "short" vowels: the meanings given to the terms by phoneticians and the meanings many of us learned when we were learning to read in elementary school. In the phonetics meanings, "long" and "short" refer simply to the actual durations of pronunciations. It's natural to be puzzled...http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongAOrShortAVowelSound/2/jqvlk/Post.htm#846530Sat, 21 Feb 2004 07:22:30 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:846530raymond s. wisethe of helps, This is true, but it complicates matters. For example (here I'm using ASCII IPA to represent IPA), the Collins dictionaries, Cambridge dictionaries, and the OED all use (@U) to represent the British (Received Pronunciation) version of the "long 'o'" (as an American would refer to it). But for the British version of the "short 'a,'" and the "long 'i,'" the newer dictionaries from the Oxford University Press (and the newer definitions in the online OED) use, respectively, (a) and (VI) while the Collins and the Cambridge use (&) and (aI), the same symbols which I would use to represent the American pronunciation of the vowels in question. And let's not even...http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongAOrShortAVowelSound/8/jqvlk/Post.htm#837778Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:51:29 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:837778r j valentine... } ps. I consulted Merriam Webster's online edition of their unabridged } dictionary, and while they do classify a short A sound for my original } words in question, they also give a secondary pronunciation,"AI," in } their pronuncation guide for some of those words. This is the only } dictionary I can find that even slightly supports my case. I would } LOVE to find another source that supports it even more... Google for just about any posting by a mystery fellow posting from either an nyu.edu or a weslyan.edu address with either "RF" or "fontana" in there somewhere and using the words "lax" and "tense" There's plenty of support for your observation there. Bob Cunningham also...http://www.englishforums.com/English/PronunciationStopConsonants/jvlvx/post.htm#777166Mon, 15 Dec 2003 01:37:26 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:777166iwasakiIn that case, "at the sight of" and "at the side of" become exactly the same pronunciation? Oh, no. The and the are the same, as it were, but the vowels are different but ... isolation either just a length difference, or maybe a different diphthong altogether (like that (aI) vs. (VI) distinction maybe). Oh, dear. IPA in my dictionaries (and online dictionaries) don't (doesn't?) differentiate the vowel of "sight" from that of "side". Is this because they are usually considered to be the same vowel and only people with a keen ear notice such things, or is it because too subtle for them? That final / has got to be more than just a plain vanella (sic) glottal stop. I think it's a glottal...http://www.englishforums.com/English/PronunciationStopConsonants/jvlvx/post.htm#775849Sat, 13 Dec 2003 17:23:10 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:775849r fI don't know from linguistics and phonetics (we're sending Young ... a vowel, however, it turns into a flap sound (*) In that case, "at the sight of" and "at the side of" become exactly the same pronunciation? Oh, no. The and the are the same, as it were, but the vowels are different but I think that's the same in typical AmE "sight"/"side" pronounced in isolation either just a length difference, or maybe a different diphthong altogether (like that (aI) vs. (VI) distinction maybe). That final / has got to be more than just a plain vanella (sic) glottal stop. I think it's a glottal stop with a hint of dentality. Because there are AmE accents where, I think, a plain vanella (sic)...http://www.englishforums.com/English/PronunciationStopConsonants/jvlvx/post.htm#775822Sat, 13 Dec 2003 16:55:48 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:775822iwasakiI don't know from linguistics and phonetics (we're sending Young Aaron to grad school for that), but I think the ... context where there's a closely linked following word beginning with a vowel, however, it turns into a flap sound (*) In that case, "at the sight of" and "at the side of" become exactly the same pronunciation? except for the combination, where I think it's more of a (t). (In the latter case, other Americans might ... of this, listen to Michael Hamm's recent recording where, as I recall, he artificially aspirates the final -t of "cat".) Thank you for the explanation. I listened to his "cat" at http://www.math.wustl.edu/~msh210/recording.html If that "t"...http://www.englishforums.com/English/NewPageSitePronunciationNewsgroup-ContributorsNames/21/wgqcv/Post.htm#717530Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:36:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:717530rzedI'm pretty sure that in the U.S. and southern England ... accept that my CIC intuitions about this may be wrong. I think they are, for southern England; can't speak for the US. "laurel" for me rhymes with "sorrel" which has the same vowel as "sorry" and "cot". Around here (Virginia, US), "laurel" can be pronounced either way, and sometimes both ways in the same sentence. Laurel (a friend of my daughter) pronounces her name with the "cot" vowel, but I generally hear the laurel of Mountain Laurel pronounced with a "sore" vowel (this is the audio pronunciation in the online MW). For me, in other words, "laurel" can rhyme with "sorrel", which...http://www.englishforums.com/English/PronunciationLieblichOtherRegulars-Names/hxnkd/post.htm#657383Thu, 04 Sep 2003 16:20:53 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:657383r fPronunciation of names is tough. The topic about AUE posters' names pops up once in a while, and if I ... is like "spy-ra", but I forget how to pronounce Padraig Breathnach. And should the "h" in Bob "Cunningham" be pronounced? How should the "Bob" in "Bob Cunningham" be pronounced? CINC Americans will want to say "bahb", using the cot/father vowel, but Bob's own pronunciation of "Bob" seems closer to their "Bawb". I would very much appreciate if there would be an ASCII IPA list of how-to-pronounce-AUE-regulars-names (or wav.files of their names) somewhere in the AUE website. First you'd need to define who a 'regular' is. Is Tony Cooper...