How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect, maybe ...

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In most languages, including English, vowels that occur next to nasal consonants (m, n, and ng in English) are produced as slightly or entirely nasal. I saw this as phonetically interesting. In my ...

What is a digraph? Well, there are plenty of them in English and it’s where two ‘written letters’ represent one phonetic sound. For example, in the word ‘phonetic’. the first two letters <ph> are ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Beginning phonetics students are taught that some varieties of American English have two contrasting reduced vowels, transcribed as [o] and [ƚ ...

This paper provides an acoustic phonetic description of Hawai‘i English vowels. The data comprise wordlist tokens produced by twenty-three speakers (twelve males and eleven females) and spontaneous ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the sixth of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the seventh of seven short vowel ...