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- What is the difference between phonetic and phonemic?
Phonemics, or Phonology, is the study of the distribution of sound systems in human languages A Phoneme is a particular set of sounds produced in a particular language and distinguishable by native speakers of that language from other (sets of) sounds in that language That's what "distinctive" means -- the English phonemes n and ŋ can be told apart by native speakers of English, because
- In IPA transcription, what is the difference between “ɪ”, i, “i:”?
Phonemic transcription IS the IPA's original intended use since 1888 And since narrowness is a continuum, even in allophonic transcriptions you can never tell what sound each symbol represents without acquainting yourself with the underlying conventions either
- Why phonemic symbols are different between dictionaries
I find the phonemic symbols are different for the same word between dictionaries Take the word "tuck" for example In Oxford Learner's Dictionary, its tʌk for both British English and
- pronunciation - Could you clarify e and ɛ ? - English Language . . .
The phonemic forms of the two examples I've mentioned, I take to be bɛj "bay" and bɛti "Betty" In classical phonemics, minimal pairs have a special significance
- phonetics - The ɪ sound vs the i sound - exact difference . . .
See "The Undesirability of length marks in EFL phonemic transcription", (1975), by Jack Windsor Lewis Especially in transcriptions of American English, it's common to represent the vowel in peat as i
- Psychology of diphthongs - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The three phonemic diphthongs are the only ones that "count": ɔɪ and aʊ and aɪ Everything else is a non-phonemic phonetic effect that varies between between regions, speakers, and utterances
- Is kləʊðz really the correct phonetic transcription of the word . . .
In words like grieves, clothes, many speakers stop the voicing of the final z earlier than you might expect from the phonemic transcription Most English speakers still hear the phonemes vz anyway, because at the end of a word, vs is a combination of phonemes that does not appear in English
- pronunciation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
There are questions on ELU about the phonemic transcriptions of orange in both British and American English in dictionaries However, this being a site for linguists and all that, I thought I would indulge myself in a question about how people pronounce orange, in terms of what sounds they actually make and the qualities of those sounds in
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