Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol. 33, No. 1 (June 2003), pp. 1-16 (16 pages) The vowels /i/ and /I/ are not contrastive before /r/ in American English, and the phonetics ...

On July 4, 1960, the Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard rang in Independence Day with a dire Associated Press report by one Norma Gauhn headlined “American Dialects Disappearing.” The problem, according to ...

And I'm Robert Siegel. P: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change. He calls it a snapshot of our rapidly changing language, mergers of sounds that used to be different, splits of sounds that used to be ...

A new computer model has learned to recognize vowel categories from multiple English and Japanese speakers without "knowing" the number of vowels it is looking for or having a complete list of sounds ...

Because that’s the way everyone expects pop and rock musicians to sound. British pop singers have been imitating American pronunciations since Cliff Richard, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones began ...

We say “tomato”; they say “tomahto.” It used to be easy to tell the difference between the American and British actors on TV the minute they opened their mouths — but no longer. Since the success of ...

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