Hello everybody! Please help me . Now I'm learning English Phonetics. I found learning consonants easy as i know the following sentence. Quick frozen fox jumps over the lazy dog. However,in learning vowels sounds,I found it

As per phonetics theory, I've been told one should use the indefinite article "a" before words beginning with a consonant and "an" before words beginning with a vowel or a diphthong. And the sound "y" ( or / j /

What I'm trying to say is that: a) There is ... Richard's terms, my dialect is CINC and yours is CIC. All of that sounds reasonable, as far as it goes. But I had the impression you were originally defending the idea of using a single

The concept of "allophones" belongs to phonemics, not phonetics. An ... You're talking about more precise phonetic notations, not about allophones. Those remarks seem to verge on being contradictory. An allophone is a phonetic

I am puzzled by this last statement: is it meant ... didn't, or why does no one opine that they did? Aha! First, this is a somewhat roundabout way learn the basics of Latin pronunciation. You should, of course, check first Allen's Vox

On 28 Jan 2005 20:09:37 -0800, R H Draney Bob Cunningham filted: When we were in elementary school, the teacher taught us ... the vowels in "peck", "pick", "pock", and "rut" were short. That's

Some remarks from different posters in recent days suggest that it's time to discuss again the conflict between two different meanings of "long" and of "short". When we were in elementary school, the teacher taught us that

As always, Americans use their own system. The good dictionaries from Oxford, Cambridge, the bilingual ones here in Germany and specialized pronunciation dictionaries almost exclusively use the IPA notation. I may have mentioned this before in

the IPA phonetics symbols seems popular on the web. However, most dictionaries don't use it. Why is that? Because they don't expect most readers to know it. It's only American dictionaries which tend to avoid IPA. British and

The schwa is by definition syllabic, though - to tell whether it's present in Bush's "prioritize" just count the syllables that you hear. But is the schwa a purely objective thing? I don't know from Bush's dialect, but