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Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
"the" sound
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“It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence to them which is of much value is that of Aristotle.” (LibriVox)
“…and you can expect to see the Harry Potter starts all glammed up…” (BBC)
The Oxford dictionary says ‘it’ is pronounced like these: /before a consonant ð?; before a vowel , ð?; stressed , ði?/. So I think the second ‘the’ is a stressed sound. But the first one is pronounced [ð?] against the rule. Is this also the kind of stressed sound by breaking the law?
“It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence to them which is of much value is that of Aristotle.” (LibriVox)
“…and you can expect to see the Harry Potter starts all glammed up…” (BBC)
The Oxford dictionary says ‘it’ is pronounced like these: /before a consonant ð?; before a vowel , ð?; stressed , ði?/. So I think the second ‘the’ is a stressed sound. But the first one is pronounced [ð?] against the rule. Is this also the kind of stressed sound by breaking the law?
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/. This is not a 'rule' or 'law'; it is an observation of sound production physics in conversational word flow. ] against the rule.
- /.
- This is not a 'rule' or 'law'; it is an observation of sound production physics in conversational word flow.
- ] against the rule.
- Consequently with 'careful' or measured speech, either pronunciation might obtain.
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eipjooThe Oxford dictionary says ‘it’ is pronounced like these: /before a consonant ð?; before a vowel , ð?; stressed , ði?/.This is not a 'rule' or 'law'; it is an observation of sound production physics in conversational word flow.
eipjooBut the first one is pronounced [ð?] against the rule.Consequently with 'careful' or
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