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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Diphthongs /eə/, /ɪə/ and /ʊə/

What is the difference in pronunciation of diphthongs /e?/, /??/ and /??/ between AmE and BrE please.
  

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org/wiki/R-colored_vowel vowel/diphthong. Most speakers of (English) BrE won't.

— Fivejedjon

  • org/wiki/R-colored_vowel vowel/diphthong.
  • Most speakers of (English) BrE won't.
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The difference that springs to mind is that if these diphthongs are followed by the letter r in their written form (as in there, here and pure), most speakers of Ame will have a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-colored_vowel vowel/diphthong. Most speakers of (English) BrE won't.
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Am i right to think that most speakers of AmE won't http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/search/english/?q=pronouncede the second part of the dipthongs and the words there, here and pure will be as /ðer/, /h?r/ and /pj?r/, effectively
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AnonymousWhat is the difference in pronunciation of diphthongs /e?/, /??/ and /??/ between AmE and BrE please.
It seems to me that, being between slashes rather than between brackets, those are phonemes, and so are not pronounced at all because they are only abstractions. I don't believe American English contains those phonemes at all. As phones rather than
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Anonymousthere, here and pure will be as [ð?r], [h?r] and [pj?r]
As shown. Lax vowels are used before [r] in AmE.
Anonymouseffectively [e?], [??] and [??] are not diphthongs in AmE.
Correct.

CJ
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