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Hans51 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Robot /ˈrōˌbät/ Robert/ˈräbərt/
Robot /'ro?bät/
Robert/'räb?rt/
I try to distinguish between the pronunciation of the words and I found a somewhat unfamiliar sign,ä, so the two dots means accent? I usually just saw one dot for accent and then is that new?
What do you native English speakers think?
And how do you distinguish between the words?
With accent or with different vowels?
Robert/'räb?rt/
I try to distinguish between the pronunciation of the words and I found a somewhat unfamiliar sign,ä, so the two dots means accent? I usually just saw one dot for accent and then is that new?
What do you native English speakers think?
And how do you distinguish between the words?
With accent or with different vowels?
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org/wiki/Open_central_unrounded_vowel ). There is no example given for the English accent that I use, so perhaps it does not exist in my accent. I guess that your pronunciations are for an American accent of some sort.
- org/wiki/Open_central_unrounded_vowel ).
- There is no example given for the English accent that I use, so perhaps it does not exist in my accent.
- I guess that your pronunciations are for an American accent of some sort.
- com (choose the appropriate variety of English in the dropdown next to the search field).
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According to Wikipedia, ä in IPA represents an "open central unrounded vowel" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_central_unrounded_vowel). There is no example given for the English accent that I use, so perhaps it does not exist in my accent. I guess that your pronunciations are for an A
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Thank you so much and then I have one more question. So the accent of the two words is in the first syllable like
Robot /'ro?bät/ /'r??b?t/
Robert/'räb?rt/ /'r?b?t/
And then I cannot figure it out with the accent, right?
Robot /'ro?bät/ /'r??b?t/
Robert/'räb?rt/ /'r?b?t/
And then I cannot figure it out with the accent, right?
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The accent is on the first syllable in both words, so accent will not distinguish them.
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GPYTypical American and Southern England (like mine) pronunciations of both words are given at http://www.oxforddictionaries.com (choose the appropriate variety of English in the dropdown next to the search field).This wasn't very clear, but I meant to say that you can listen to t
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Hans51Robot /'ro?bät/ Robert/'räb?rt/In my opinion this is not IPA.
The little apostrophe-like mark is placed just before the stressed syllable, so both words have initial stress.
The difference in the first syllables is most noticeable. The first part of 'robot' is the same as the word 'robe'. The first part of 'Robert' is the same as th
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