- 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
- phonetics - The ɪ sound vs the i sound - exact difference . . .
But i: can be unstressed too: proceeds ˈprəʊ siːdz And if it's just a matter of stress, why should there be a distinction in the phonetic transcription, because other vowels are not using such a distinction! –
- 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 So they're naturally different
- Are phonics and Phoenician related? - English Language Usage . . .
The word phonetic is of Greek origin (φωνή {phōni} = voice) Greek writing probably first emerged in the 8th century BCE What its predecessors appear to have lacked, namely the Phoenician alphabet, was a comprehensive representation of vowel as well as consonant sounds
- pronunciation - Is there any online tool to read (pronounce) IPA and . . .
@endolith: you would need over a hundred vowel symbols to represent sounds completely unambiguously IPA has diacritics you put on vowels that tell you to raise, lower, back, or front them (showing that the ear can distinguish between many more vowels than the 25 or so basic IPA symbols for vowels) but these diacritics see relatively little use
- pronunciation - How is æ supposed to be pronounced? - English . . .
There’s no simple answer to any question of the form “How is <letter> <digraph> pronounced?” It depends As you’ll have seen in the Wikipedia article, what would have been pronounced ai in Latin is usually pronounced iː in English, but there are inevitably exceptions like the name Æleen, or examples like paedophile where the British rendering iː goes through both a spelling
- pronunciation - Could you clarify e and ɛ ? - English Language . . .
If your own pronunciations happen to be similar to mine, this example may help to clarify the phonetic difference you're asking about To discuss a matter concerning pronunciation, which concerns the phones of a pronunciation, and use slashes, which ordinarily are used to refer to phonemic forms, is asking for confusion
- phonetics - How to differentiate between the different pronunciations . . .
This table shows the differences of phonetic symbols between different sources: IPA AHD MW Sample Words ɝ û ə work, were, bird, dirt, nurse, stir, courage ᴧ ŭ ə but, butt, bud link to the table The
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