In other words, we say that the flap t and the regular “t” are the same phoneme. More examples Each of these examples gives two different sounds that are written with the same symbol in phonemic transcription. In other words, the two sounds are the same phoneme.

2006年1月15日 · A phone is a sound we produce, while a phoneme is not a pronouncable unit, but an abstract segment that subsumes a set of non-contrastive, actually realised sounds, called allophones (or phonetic variants).

To understand how sounds are grouped into phonemes, read the article on phonemic transcription.) So this page actually lists phonemes (groups of sounds), not individual sounds. Each symbol in the chart can correspond to many different (but similar) sounds, depending on the word and the speaker’s accent. Take the phoneme p in the above chart.

2006年1月25日 · /eI/ and /oU/ aren't phonemes because they contain more than one symbol, for one thing. There's no difference between [e] and [eI] in English; you can represent the corresponding phoneme as /e/--the /I/ is redundant.

2006年8月6日 · mobile, short for "mobile phone" (in the sense of "cellular phone"), a term in everyday usage in some English-speaking countries such as the UK and Australia. Also commonly used by industry insiders in America, although with a different pronunciation.

2010年4月4日 · How does a Marseille accent differ from a Parisian one? Is the flow different? How are some of the words pronounced differently? What are any other distinctions that tell you it isn't any other accent, but one from Marseille? bob Sun Apr 04, 2010 10:46 am GMT The Marseille accent in its extreme form is characterized by a different intonation and more Italian …

2005年10月7日 · Minimal pairs are word pairs used to determine the lowest level of phoneme that can distinguish one word from another. "Ship/sheep" is a minimal pair, for example, demonstrating that the vowel difference in these two words is significant in English.

2007年3月15日 · For me, following /l/ really doesn't induce any allophony at all in my /V/ phoneme - I perceive "gulf" to have the exact same vowel as "cup" or "hut". (I think this conservative treatment of /Vl/ is more common here in the Northeast.)

2004年9月15日 · the General American and RP accent both lack the [W] phoneme. So, RP is not the accent with the most phonemes (although some people claim it is). Jim Friday, September 17, 2004, 06:43 GMT

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