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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
Pronunciation of English hiccup: Which syllables takes [k]? It is generally agreed that phonetic syllable division must as far as possible avoid creating consonant clusters which are not found at the edges of words This is the phonotactic constraint Thus windy might be ˈwɪn di or ˈwɪnd i, but it could not be ˈwɪ ndi (because English words cannot begin with nd)
What is the difference between ʌɪ and aɪ in English? Is there any difference between the two diphthongs in English IPA transcriptions? If I search a word in the Cambridge dictionary, it gives aɪ for both UK English and US English For example, the
pronunciation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Say you need to read someone their password over the phone and you spell it phonetically so that there is no confusion between M and N etc Now that is straight forward but what if the password is
american english - Pronunciation of er in farmer vs. earth . . . The phonetic rendering that you're looking at is probably slanted towards a British accent In British English, the r sound is usually not pronounced as a separate segment at the end of a syllable, but rather causes a slight change in the preceding vowel This is indicated by the symbols that you see, which is called an "r-colored schwa"
dictionaries - American refusal of the IPA: why? - English Language . . . In America phonetic notation has had a curious history Bloomfield used IPA notation in his early book An Introduction to the Study of Language, 1914, and in the English edition of his more famous Language, 1935 But since then, a strange hostility has been shown by many American linguists to IPA notation, especially to certain of its symbols
pronunciation - Phonetic symbols for Port are different: Webster . . . The Merriam-Webster Learner's dictionary is using IPA, which is the international standard for phonetic notation The Merriam-Webster online dictionary uses Merriam-Webster's own phonetic symbols, which it has been using for the last sixty years, and which Americans are used to