- 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
- 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 - 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 - 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
- american english - Pronunciation of er in farmer vs. earth . . .
The phonetic rendering that you're looking at is probably slanted towards a British accent In British English, the r sound is usually not pronounced as a separate segment at the end of a syllable, but rather causes a slight change in the preceding vowel This is indicated by the symbols that you see, which is called an "r-colored schwa"
- What are the conventional words for characters (A-Z)?
The Nato Phonetic Alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta and so on) would be familiar to some, but not to all — my mother would probably think me pretentious for using it But that is what our police would use to provide clear, unambiguous details of a car number plate over the radio, for example
- What is the ū sound in English symbol?
Popular phonetic symbols, e g , KK and DJ, are based on IPA, but not IPA One more example, the phonetic symbol of Merriam-Webster dictionary is totally different from IPA – chenzhongpu
- 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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