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Johnson13 Posted 13 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation

I know that despite the area of Britain, there are many more dialects there than in the US; dictionaries's phonetic symbols (correct my terminology if wrong) are Received Pronunciation, which means an overwhelming majority of native speakers do not talk like ESL students. My question is, for DISCUSS, living on campus, I've heard exchange students from South Carolina and London pronounce like DISGUS only, which is of course the correct way, but do you think other native speakers in the US and UK will pronounce DISCUTS (-cut, not gus)?
  

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Johnson13 I've heard exchange students from South Carolina and London pronounce like DISGUS only, which is of course the correct way, It is not the correct way. The voiceless sibilant /s/ ensures that the following /k/ is not voiced by native speakers.. You'll get a different thing happening in 'disgust', in which the /s/ may cause (at least partial) devoicing of the following /g/.

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  • Johnson13 I've heard exchange students from South Carolina and London pronounce like DISGUS only, which is of course the correct way, It is not the correct way.
  • The voiceless sibilant /s/ ensures that the following /k/ is not voiced by native speakers..
  • You'll get a different thing happening in 'disgust', in which the /s/ may cause (at least partial) devoicing of the following /g/.
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Johnson13 I've heard exchange students from South Carolina and London pronounce like DISGUS only, which is of course the correct way,
It is not the correct way. The voiceless sibilant /s/ ensures that the following /k/ is not voiced by native speakers..

You'll get a different thing happening in 'disgust', in which the /s/ may cause (at least partial)
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Thanks...but I'm a little a confused...

Doesn't 'the following /k/ is not voiced by native speakers' mean they will pronounce DISGUS, insteading of DISCUT (the CUT as in CUTTING)
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