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Rashin Posted 14 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Pronunciation

Hello,

How these vowel sounds /a/ , /up down c/ are different in American accent?
here's the Ex for these sounds respectively:
blonde /a/

cough- I can't find the symbol in charts.sorry. you should guess.

Thanks
  

Top answer

/ The latter vowel is not not completely rounded. You need to add that IPA subscript "less rounded". Blonde is with /a/ .

— Raindoctor

  • / The latter vowel is not not completely rounded.
  • You need to add that IPA subscript "less rounded".
  • Blonde is with /a/ .
  • You can study about LOT-CLOTH split.
  • It usually occurs before /f/, /s/, /th/, /g/ and /ng/
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In COT-CAUGHT unmerged American dialects, you hear COUGH with a less rounded /?/ The latter vowel is not not completely rounded. You need to add that IPA subscript "less rounded".

Blonde is with /a/ .

You can study about LOT-CLOTH split. It usually occurs before /f/, /s/, /th/, /g/ and /ng/
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Thanks raindoctor.
What are LOT-CLOTH split & COT-CAUGHT? How can I get the information? Could you please introduce a source to brush up my information?

Thanks in advance
R.N
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Wikipedia and Google are your answers.

For lexical sets, check http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~anth383/lexicalsets.html
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