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3 days ago · Inexpert non-native speakers do not. But this does not mean that there is a stress rule that could be taught to second-language learners: most phonologists today would agree that the attempt by Chomsky and Halle to describe English pronunciation in full without ever marking stress position in a lexical entry was quixotic.
The only thing is that, in English, this sound doesn't make meaning (that is, you would never use it to differentiate between two words, like the 'b' and 'd' in "bad" and "dad"), so it doesn't really matter whether you can make it or not, or whether you do or don't. However, in other languages, the 7 (glottal stop) does make meaning.
3 days ago · English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English. Like many other languages, English has wide variation in pronunciation, both historically and from dialect to dialect. In general, however, the regional dialects of English share a largely similar (but not identical) phonological system.
4 days ago · What happens when a word or syllable ending in the sound /nd/ is followed by a word or syllable starting with a consonant sound? Tim explains...
3 days ago · Many British dictionaries, including the Oxford English Dictionary and some learner's dictionaries such as the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary and the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, now use the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the pronunciation of words.
5 days ago · Placing the focus on the bizarre, the language people at Preply have revealed what the longest words in the dictionary are, as well as what they mean and how to pronounce them. 1. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) Taking the crown for the longest word in standard dictionaries is ...
5 days ago · Oxford dictionary defines diaspora (n.) as “Any group of people who have spread or become dispersed beyond their traditional homeland or point of origin.” I like this definition because it implicitly acknowledges that the creation of a diaspora is not always a choice.
