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 …

In Old English, stress was not phonemic because the stress was always on the first syllable except for verbs like forsacan (forsake) or behydan (hide) with a leading particle. But in …

2023年4月5日 · Phonemic transcription IS the IPA's original intended use since 1888. And since narrowness is a continuum, even in allophonic transcriptions you can never tell what sound …

2019年5月29日 · See "The Undesirability of length marks in EFL phonemic transcription", (1975), by Jack Windsor Lewis. Especially in transcriptions of American English, it's common to …

2019年2月5日 · I find the phonemic symbols are different for the same word between dictionaries. Take the word "tuck" for example. In Oxford Learner's Dictionary, its /tʌk/ for both British …

2017年9月10日 · The three phonemic diphthongs are the only ones that "count": /ɔɪ/ and /aʊ/ and /aɪ/. Everything else is a non-phonemic phonetic effect that varies between between regions, …

Thanks for the great practical mnemonic, though the claim that "of", "must", and "learn" contain three different vowels deserves discussion; the first two may simply be the unstressed versus …

2018年2月9日 · @tchrist they share the first syllable in British English too (a definite /ʌ/ though). I suspect you're right about phonemic /r/, but I think the OP has been confused by a confused …

2018年2月27日 · But an important point to remember is that the use of the length marker in quantitative or qualitative-quantitative phonemic transcription systems for English is completely …

2016年2月18日 · The word ending spelled apostrophe "s" is a phonemic /z/ in all the instances I can think of. (But English spelling is not very regular, so there could be exceptions.) However, …