In English, we have 5 (well, sometimes 6) vowel letters, but way more vowel sounds. That’s where the IPA can help us! We learn about vowels, those sounds you can sing with your mouth open ...

You don’t (usually) get any phonetics in high school ... lips and cheeks while permitting unimpeded airflow, there is a vowel sound employing that oral posture. As you learn the framework ...

American Accent Undergoing Great Vowel Shift Professor William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and ...

I'm Tim and this is my Pronunciation Workshop ... when one word ends in a consonant sound and the next word begins in a vowel sound, we link the two sounds together without a pause in between ...

This is why many linguists believe that it meets all the criteria of a phonetic vowel. Up to now, I've only been talking about the standard American pronunciation of R, but you're probably aware ...

They are rules in the making, not quite resolved. Here are five phonetic pitfalls of shm- reduplication. The shm- goes before the vowel of the first syllable (apple, shmapple). If there's already ...