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An informal term referring to the verbalized form of words specific to a language. Can also refer to particular individual's pronunciation, as in an accent or a pathology, or a specific speech event, as in a mispronunciation.

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I'm working on a phonetic description of a conlang (or analyzing a specific dialect) where speakers contrast an open-mid central rounded vowel [ɞ] with an open-mid back rounded vowel [ɔ]. However, in ...
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I'm not sure if this is a good place to ask, but I'm wondering if anyone knows where I could find out more about the fifth-century Athenian use of the letter H (when it actually represented a /h/ ...
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I was very surprised seeing the Cambridge's phonemic transcription of the word 'meal': https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/meal Is it really pronounced with the same vowel as the word '...
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I'm trying to match the way Wikipedia pronounces ɓ, ɗ, ᶑ, ʄ, ʛ, and ʛ and it doesn't sound like he's gasping for air. The pronunciation video I saw on ɓ also doesn't sound like they're gasping
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Does it make sense and is it useful to use an accent mark /ˈ/ in transcriptions of pronunciation of one-syllable words such as 'bed'. Some dictionaries do it, but most don't
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I wonder why English dictionaries say that trip is pronounced /trɪp/ (not /tʃrɪp/) while I hear many people saying [tʃɹɪp] and even listening to the audio recordings that these dictionaries provice, ...
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Wikipedia says: Vowel length is not phonemic in General American, and therefore vowels such as /i/ are customarily transcribed without the length mark. But dictionaries sometimes distinguish between ...
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Biblical CaCC or CiCC syllables with a guttural second radical, usually become CaCaC in Masoretic Hebrew. For example, דַּעַת (/daʕaṯ/ < /diʕt/), פַּחַד (/paħaḏ/ < /paħd/), and so on. The word ...
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According to Wiktionary, the general American pronunciation of "museum" is /mjuˈziəm/. Included in "(US, dialectal)" is /mjuˈzæm/. I pronounce it the latter way. I have been called ...
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I know that T-voicing occurs if /t/ is sandwiched between two vowels. But what about the case where it's followed by a vowel and is immediately preceded by /d/ sound, as in "lead to" or &...
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Most descriptions of Papiamento describe ñ as being the same as in Spanish; however, I don't think that's the case. It appears to be pronounced as [j] while nasalizing the preceding vowel, so 'paña' ...
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Native English speakers usually use their natural accent, and almost never switch to a more common dialect. Most English speakers probably can do a good impression of say, standard American or ...
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Is the mechanism like PGmc *fingraz (< PIE *penkʷ-ró-s) / *fimf (< PIE *pénkʷe) responsible for PGmc ganōgaz > modern english /ɪˈnʌf/ pronunciation?
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I was wondering if being bilingual can cause you to have a different accent from other people that speak only one of those languages. Since, for example, if you can roll your r's from one language ...
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There are many English words that end in [consonant]-LE, where it almost seems like the E has the effect of adding a schwa in between the consonant and the L. Did these words used to be pronounced ...

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