Every elementary school student learns it early in their lives: A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y. Scott Zolak, however, was apparently absent on the day that was taught in his school, and he adamantly ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Beginning phonetics students are taught that some varieties of American English have two contrasting reduced vowels, transcribed as [o] and [ƚ ...

How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect, maybe ...

Learning and teaching the English language can be a challenging task. There are so many things that can confuse anyone, even adults. You can ...

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In most languages, including English, vowels that occur next to nasal consonants (m, n, and ng in English) are produced as slightly or entirely nasal. I saw this as phonetically interesting. In my ...

This paper provides an acoustic phonetic description of Hawai‘i English vowels. The data comprise wordlist tokens produced by twenty-three speakers (twelve males and eleven females) and spontaneous ...