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Maple Posted 18 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

/d/ in /adv/

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00Should /d/ in /adv/ be pronounced? Slightly? how slightly, almost inaudible? 02br
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00(A teacher told me I mispronounced 01i00advertisement02i00, for I pronounced /d/ too articulately. 02br
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00I've heard them via some online dictionaries, the results are bewildering. It seems that I can hear a clearer /d/ in BE than in AE. Now I want to know if it's only AE makes that /d/ almost inaudible?02br
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00Thanks in advance!0-
  

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0 Hi,02br 00maybe you are saying "a-duh-vertisement", but I'm afraid no one can be sure what your problem is unless you record your voice and post a clip. It's impossible to talk about these things without an audio clip for reference. Or just post the clips from those dictionaries.

— Kooyeen

  • 0 Hi,02br 00maybe you are saying "a-duh-vertisement", but I'm afraid no one can be sure what your problem is unless you record your voice and post a clip.
  • It's impossible to talk about these things without an audio clip for reference.
  • Or just post the clips from those dictionaries.
  • 02br 00I can only tell you that consonant clusters (more consonants together) are pronounced together so you don't hear all of the consonants, but the result sounds like there are some "holes" or "pauses" instead of some consonants.
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0 Hi,02br
00maybe you are saying "a-duh-vertisement", but I'm afraid no one can be sure what your problem is unless you record your voice and post a clip. It's impossible to talk about these things without an audio clip for reference. Or just post the clips from those dictionaries. 02br
00I can only tell you that consonant clusters (more consonants together) are pronounce
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0Thank you Kooyeen very much!0-
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