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Kraut's English phonetic blog: From the press
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Kraut's English phonetic blog. Occasional observations on English pronunciation features, phonetics, teaching and learning. Friday, 24 July 2015. Public Radio International has provided us with this breaking news. It looks like the distinctive, almost-rolling "R" may be dissapearing [sic] from the Scottish accent. Eleanor Lawson is a sociolinguist at the University of Glasgow and Queen Margaret University (QMU) in Edinburgh and has conducted research on the phenomenon. 25 July 2015 at 13:18. Yourre right...
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Inexorable change? | Linguism | Linguistics, Pronunciation and Phonetics
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February 25, 2015. Every one of the current pronunciation dictionaries agrees that the stress in the word. Is on the second syllable. On Monday this week, in the Radio 4 programme charting the history of Britain in numbers. Professor Jane Humphries, Professor of Economic History, All Souls, Oxford, clearly said /ɪnekˈsÉ’rÉ bÉ l/. It might have been less surprising if the stressed vowel had been the longer /É Ë /, as in. Google lists 29 words ending in –. Leave a reply →. February 26, 2015 at 12:34 pm.
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Alex's phonetic thoughts: February 2014
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ˈɡʊd /tiːʔtʃɪŋ ɪz ˈmɔːr ə ɡɪvɪŋ əv raɪʔ /kwestʃənz ðən ə ˈɡɪvɪŋ əv raɪt ɑːntsəz (Josef Albers). Wednesday, 26 February 2014. A couple of 'screenshots' of my book. I thought my readers might find it useful to have a look at some of the pages from my newly published book. Before they decide whether they want to buy it or not. So here goes. Below you can see pp. 90-91, where I discuss stress placement in English words and in frequent Italian medical terms. Please note the following abbreviations:. As you pr...
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Alex's phonetic thoughts: Standard British accent?
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ˈɡʊd /tiːʔtʃɪŋ ɪz ˈmɔːr ə ɡɪvɪŋ əv raɪʔ /kwestʃənz ðən ə ˈɡɪvɪŋ əv raɪt ɑːntsəz (Josef Albers). Wednesday, 30 July 2014. Is an Italian magazine written in English and aimed at EFL students. For several years now it's had its own website. Where videos are posted of interviews with all sorts of English native speakers. Even world-famous linguist David Crystal has more than once contributed to the magazine: listen to the free podcasts here. One of this month's clips (and articles). And having a beer. And th...
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Alex's phonetic thoughts: The sounds of languages
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ˈɡʊd /tiːʔtʃɪŋ ɪz ˈmɔːr ə ɡɪvɪŋ əv raɪʔ /kwestʃənz ðən ə ˈɡɪvɪŋ əv raɪt ɑːntsəz (Josef Albers). Monday, 24 November 2014. The sounds of languages. The phonetics book you can see here to the left,. I suoni delle lingue, i suoni dell'italiano. 3rd edition), was published less than a month ago by Il Mulino. 3rd edition, 2002; Carocci). It contains interesting information concerning (Standard) Italian connected speech, as when, for example, at its page 64, the word cioè. That is (to say). Unfortunately, the ...
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Alex's phonetic thoughts: April 2013
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ˈɡʊd /tiːʔtʃɪŋ ɪz ˈmɔːr ə ɡɪvɪŋ əv raɪʔ /kwestʃənz ðən ə ˈɡɪvɪŋ əv raɪt ɑːntsəz (Josef Albers). Monday, 8 April 2013. Have you ever considered wrtiting the French word événement. I think my French teacher at school would have corrected me if I'd written it with a grave accent on the second e. But I recently learned that both spellings are perfectly acceptable in modern French. The Académie Française has even made it clear that the spelling évènement. People nowadays usually say evɛn(ə)mɑ̃. This means tha...
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Useful links | borissoff
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Personal site of Constantine Borissoff. Indo-European Phonological Inventory Database. The Indo-European Phonological Inventory Database collects the phonemic inventories of the ancient and attested Indo-European languages. Every record in the database is linked to an ancient language and it contains the consonant and vowel inventories of the language. A very informative site run by Sidney Wood. THE GRAVETTIAN OF MORAVIA THE PAVLOVIAN and the Willendorf-Kostenkian. Slavic Language Dictionaries from.
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phonetics | Dialect Blog
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The Accents and Dialects of English. The International Phonetic Alphabet. IPA Tutorial: Lesson 1. IPA Tutorial: Lesson 2. IPA Tutorial: Lesson 3. IPA Tutorial: Lesson 4. 8220;Fillum” in England. February 26, 2015. June 15, 2014. 8220;Courtney Act” and Non-Rhotic Puns. May 27, 2014. This season of RuPaul’s Drag Race featured Courtney Act (aka Shane Jenek), a renowned drag performer from Brisbane, Australia. In an early episode, Act/Jenek laments that Americans don’t get the pun in his stag...April 10, 2014.
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Break | Dialect Blog
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The Accents and Dialects of English. The International Phonetic Alphabet. IPA Tutorial: Lesson 1. IPA Tutorial: Lesson 2. IPA Tutorial: Lesson 3. IPA Tutorial: Lesson 4. 8220;Fillum” in England. April 10, 2015. I wrote the above post over ten months ago, and obviously have yet to return to blogging. Although I don’t have a clear timeline, I do still plan on writing more here in the future.]. View all posts by Ben →. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. 8220;Fillum” in England. 3 Arrr, Matey!