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Marvin A. Posted 19 years ago
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How do you pronounce 'sang'?

0 What vowel do you use in the word 'sang'? [æ] or [eI] or something else?0-
  

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00I use /æ/.02br
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0 I have [eI] before voiced velars. "sang", "bag", "bagel", "flag" etc.0-
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01cite10Alienvoord12cite10I have [eI] before voiced velars. "sang", "bag", "bagel", "flag" etc.12br
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10Do you have the bag-bang-beg-vague-bay merger?0-
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11cite20Alienvoord22cite20I have [eI] before voiced velars. "sang", "bag", "bagel", "flag" etc.22br
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20Do you have the bag-bang-beg-vague-bay merger?12br
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10No. "beg" is E and "bay is
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0I pronounce the vowel in 'sang' as 01a05005105202a00.030srchttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/assets/phonetics/09.gif31srchttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/assets/phonetics/ae.gif32srchttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/assets/phonetics/09.gif
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00 What vowel do you use in the word 'sang'? [æ] or [eI] or something else?12blockquote
10More like [æ], but actually something else, I'd say. Probably closer to [æI], but with only a fleeting [ I ], and certainly 01u00without02u00 making it two syllables like this [sæ - IN].02br
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00I guess I would say something like /sɛəŋ/, sounds like "seh-uh-ng"... 02br
00I guess I never use /æ/ before n or m. 050010id1
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0 >> I guess I would say something like /sɛəŋ/, sounds like "seh-uh-ng"... 02br
00I guess I never use /æ/ before n or m. 02<<
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00Hmm. Why do you pronounce it like /sɛəŋ/? I've never heard a native speaker do that. I would recommend using [ æ ] or [ e ] before /ŋ/. It's fine to use [ ɛə ] before /n/ or /m/, but not before /ŋ/. 0-
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01cite10Marvin A.12cite10Hmm. Why do you pronounce it like /sɛəŋ/?12blockquote
10Umm, I actually don't know, I don't think I really pronounce it like I told you, but I don't think I use /æ/ either. You know, I don't have a fixed accent, and I'll never have one until I start practicing spoken English regularly. My /æ/
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0 Well, that phenomenon is very common in North America. Pronouncing /æ/ like that before /m/ and /n/ is also a feauture of Northern cities vowel shifted accents, where /æ/ is always pronounced like that, as well as many other dialects. 0-
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