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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

help with æ

Please, help me how I can produce a perfect sound

(æ) I would like you to be very explicit.

Thanks.
  

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Hello Anon. Here're a few tips I'm trying to remember. Please judge by yourself if they are effective or not.

— Feathers

  • Hello Anon.
  • Here're a few tips I'm trying to remember.
  • Please judge by yourself if they are effective or not.
  • #1.
  • Pronouncing clearly the word " cat ," pay careful attention to the movement of your lower jaw.
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Hello Anon. Here're a few tips I'm trying to remember. Please judge by yourself if they are effective or not.

#1. Pronouncing clearly the word "cat," pay careful attention to the movement of your lower jaw. You'd notice that it gets lowered, dynamically, while pronouncing the vowel sound.

#2. Also pay attention to t
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Get a sheep. Listen to the sheep. Baaaaaa! Baaaaa! Baaaaa! Imitate that aaaaa sound.
And dropping your lower jaw, as advised above, is also a great idea.

CJ
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0>> hat, bat, bad, bag, ad, add 02<<
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00In some dialects ad, add and or bag would not work. If you're learning North American English, you could use the Inland North pronunciation of [ e@ ] for all instances of /æ/. Many dialects pronounce /æ/ as something like [ e@ ] or [ i@ ] before nasal consonants /n/, /N/ (velar nasal), and /m/, except on some high frequency
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0>> In my dialect, ..."bang", 01font00"bag" , "beg"02font00 and "vague" do have the same vowel <<02br
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00 Are you serious or is that a typo?02br
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0 Yep. I'm serious. Here's how I say these words as compared to General American. "N" represents "ng"; upper-case vowels represent lax vowels, and upper case vowels represent tense vowels. I listed the word, first, the General American pronunciation second, and my pronunciation third.02br
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0 I've always wanted to ask Marvin what kind of accent that is. The pronunciation of diphthongs as monophthongs is known, but I've never heard of a bag-bang-beg-vague merger. Maybe it's some southern dialect, or a feature of some Ebonics varieties, I really don't know (I'm not an expert in accents, I just like to hear them and recognize some features).02br
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00Ah, before I
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0 No, I don't speak a Southern dialect or Ebonics. I have a Western accent. I'm from the Tsawwassen peninsula. Not everyone merges all of those words here, but everyone pronounces them at least close. Certain areas in Northern Wisconsin and the Upper peninsula of Michigan as well as some speakers in Saskatchewan and Manitoba also have the bag-bang-beg-vague merger--so it exists in other area
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0Ah, I see. Thank you for the information, Marvin. 050010id1
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01b10upper12b10-case vowels represent lax vowels, and 11b10upper12b10 case vowels represent tense vowels.12blockquote
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00I'm getting a little confused here. Could you go over that again? 05002br
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0>> I'm getting a little confused here. Could you go over that again? 05000<<02br
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00Lol. Sorry. I meant to say "upper-case vowels represent lax vowels, and lower-case vowels represent tense vowels." 010id1
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