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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
Diphthong sound /əʊ/
Although the diphthong sound /??/ is made of /?/ and /?/ sounds, it is normally pronunced with /?:/ + a brief /w/ sound as in the word 'load'. Is this correct please.
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It depends on your specific accent. This sound is called the "tense O" or "long O", and it is present in words like "g oa t", "l oa d", "b o ne", "kn ow ", etc. This sound can be realised in different ways, depending on your specific accent.
- It depends on your specific accent.
- This sound is called the "tense O" or "long O", and it is present in words like "g oa t", "l oa d", "b o ne", "kn ow ", etc.
- This sound can be realised in different ways, depending on your specific accent.
- ] is similar to that which is present in "l oo k", "f u ll", and "p u sh".
- :] (perhaps a bit more closed, though), which can be found in words like "f o r" and "t o re", and in the British pronunciations of "w a lk", "f a ll", "s aw ", "c au ght".
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It depends on your specific accent.
This sound is called the "tense O" or "long O", and it is present in words like "goat", "load", "bone", "know", etc.
This sound can be realised in different ways, depending on your specific accent.
In Received Pronunciation (the standard British accent), this is generally [??], a diphthong where the first el
This sound is called the "tense O" or "long O", and it is present in words like "goat", "load", "bone", "know", etc.
This sound can be realised in different ways, depending on your specific accent.
In Received Pronunciation (the standard British accent), this is generally [??], a diphthong where the first el
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MrGuedesIn Received Pronunciation (the standard British accent), this is generally [??], a diphthong where the first element [?] is similar to the unstressed vowel in "comma", "letter", and "about", and the second element [?] is similar to that which is present in "look", "full", and "push".Thank you for your explanation but it seems that even in the British
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Anonymousit seems that even in the British pronunciation it is ****ounced like in most American accentsThe speaker in that clip is not consistently pronouncing those vowels exactly as shown in the phonetic transcriptions on the screen. The O's do sound more American to my ear than I usually observe in British English. Her
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It's hard to establish a very "exact" pronunciation, since the exact sound may change slightly, depending on the sounds that precede and succeed it. Just try as close as possible to what she's saying, and it will be good. Her sound sounds quite British to me, and it is probably how most Englishmen would say it.
In case you want, check out the following audio clips at Wikipedia: British (
In case you want, check out the following audio clips at Wikipedia: British (
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MrGuedesJust try to say it as closely as possible to what she's saying, and it will be good.I agree.
CJ
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