Questions tagged [phonetics]
The study of the production and perception of sounds or "phones".
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Phonological Analysis of Consonant Alternations in Lango
Lango is a Nilotic language spoken in Uganda.
a. Make a phonetic chart of all the consonants in the data below (columns: place of articulation; rows: manner of articulation, voicing, and length).
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How the flap t [ɾ] should be transcribed in General American?
I've heard the flap t [ɾ] should be transcribe as /d/ because, for example, in General American "latter" and "ladder" sound the same, so it's natural for them to have the same ...
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Vowel sounds in the word "going" (AmE) on a spectrogram
I have a spectrogram of the word "going" and of the word "destroy" (the "troy" part) by the same speaker. Is it possible to tell if there's an /oʊ/ in "going"? (...
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Why do dictionaries say that 'trip' is pronounced /trɪp/ while I can hear [tʃɹɪp]?
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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Are /u/ and /i/ phonemes in English?
I wonder whether /u/ (as in situation) and /i/ (as in happy) are phonemes in English, particularly in RP and GA. Many dictionaries treat them in such way:
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/...
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Is vowel length phonemic in General American?
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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Why do English dictionaries transcribe syllabic l in different ways?
For example, look at the pronunciation of the "bubble" in different dictionaries:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bubble – it uses /(ə)l/
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Pronunciation of going to/gonna in Hiberno-English dialects
I'm taking an interest in the phonology of contracted "to" (as in "gonna", "wanna", etc), and I came across this entry in a linguistics forum, commenting on the ...
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Why is the phonemic transcription of "the" /ði/ not /ðɪj/ although it's pronounced as [ðɪj] and there are phonemes /ɪ/ and /j/ in English?
According to Wiktionary when the English word the occurs immediately before vowel sounds, it is pronounced [ðɪj] phonetically.
Because there are minimal pairs for each of those individual sounds, you ...
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What exactly is the reason we hear two syllables as separate?
I have been focusing a lot on words the past 5-10+ years, and especially on classifying words as 1, 2, 3+ syllables. But sometimes words that are "traditionally" assumed to be 1 syllable are,...
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Unknown diacritics, White South African English (exam prep), need help!
I am researching White South African English´s Phonology and work with a book (A Handbook of Varities of English, Kortmann Schneider) that uses some symbols I can´t find out about.
There are usually 2 ...
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How does r-colored schwa behave in the coda?
How does r-colored schwa in American English behave in the coda before a vowel for instance in expressions like
Her age
Murder of...
After an hour
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Praat Scripting Question: Any clue on how to debug this error? (Formant value extraction)
New to Praat Scripting here, so I am not entirely sure if I am going about this in the most efficient manner. I am using a Praat script to extract formant values at specific time intervals like 10%, ...
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What is the difference between ATR and faucalization?
What differentiates between ATR and faucalized voice on one hand, and RTR and harsh voice on the other?
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Why is the [ɨ] symbol much more common than the [ɘ] symbol?
According to Becker-Kristal (2010), most languages which are claimed to have the vowel inventory [a e i o u ɨ] actually have the vowel inventory [a e i o u ɘ], and the discrepancy cannot be explained ...
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