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Kanth Posted 21 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Difficulty in pronouncing particular words

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00And i always foudn difficulty in pronouncing the words ending like "sion", eg:Session is it something to do with tongue movement , any guidance would be greatly helpful.02br
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With one "s", as in "vision", the "si" forms the voiced sound sometimes shown as "zh" or as "Z". With the double "ss", as in "impression", the "ssi" forms the unvoiced sound usually shown as "sh" or as "S". "vision" = /v i Z^n/ "impression" = /impr e S^n/ /^/ represents any of several indeterminate central vowel sounds which typically occur in unstressed syllables in English.

— CalifJim

  • With one "s", as in "vision", the "si" forms the voiced sound sometimes shown as "zh" or as "Z".
  • With the double "ss", as in "impression", the "ssi" forms the unvoiced sound usually shown as "sh" or as "S".
  • "vision" = /v i Z^n/ "impression" = /impr e S^n/ /^/ represents any of several indeterminate central vowel sounds which typically occur in unstressed syllables in English.
  • In these, use the /i/ or /u/ (as in "bit" or "but") or anything in between for the /^/.
  • The /S/ and /Z/ are produced the same way except for the voicing of /Z/.
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With one "s", as in "vision", the "si" forms the voiced sound sometimes shown as "zh" or as "Z".
With the double "ss", as in "impression", the "ssi" forms the unvoiced sound usually shown as "sh" or as "S".

"vision" = /viZ^n/ "impression" = /impreS^n/ /^/ represents any of several indeterminate central vowel sounds which typically occur in unstressed syllables in En
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