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Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Is there /w/ sound?

Indonesia has likened Australia's spying efforts to a Cold War tactic and says it would like an ex-planation within a couple of days. (ABC.net.au)

http://audioscraps.tistory.com/422

It’s not easy for me to catch /w/ sound in general. And I wonder if ‘would’ in the script was pronounced with /w/ or not. Would you check and tell me which the case is?
  

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The speaker certainly pronounced "would" unstressed so it is perhaps a little bit more difficult to hear, but it is there. "

  • The speaker certainly pronounced "would" unstressed so it is perhaps a little bit more difficult to hear, but it is there.
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The speaker certainly pronounced "would" unstressed so it is perhaps a little bit more difficult to hear, but it is there. You can hear /w/ in war in "Cold War."

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