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Many speakers will insert \ \ after \ \ when it precedes \l\. Additionally, some speakers pronounce \ \ and \i\ identically before \l\, with the result that word pairs like heel and hill are homophones. The sound pronounced in such cases may be either \ \ or \i\ as pronounced by those who distinguish the two. \ e \.
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The following tables show the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and the English pronunciation (enPR) or American Heritage Dictionary (AHD) symbols that are used to represent the various sounds of the English language. The sounds of Received Pronunciation (RP, UK), General American pronunciation (GenAm, US), Canadian English (CanE), Australian E...
Wikipedia's article on English phonologyWikipedia's IPA chart for English dialects (and for conversion to ASCII, the SAMPA chart for English)Wikipedia's article on Pronunciation respelling for EnglishGimson, A. C. (1980) An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English, 3rd edn. edition, London: Edward Arnold, →ISBNKenyon, John S.; Thomas A. Knott (1944/1953) A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, →ISBNWells, J. C. (2000) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 2nd edn. edition, Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education Limited, →ISBNIPA chart with AIFFsound files for IPA symbolsIPA chart with MP3sound files for all IPA symbols on the chart (limited version is available to anyone)CDP and its descendant, the Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English (Upton & Kretzschmar 2017, hereafter RDP) continue to be key sources for U.S. English, along with American sources such as Merriam-Webster, and the U.S. pronunciations in the pronouncing dictionaries of Wells (2008) and Jones et al. (2011).
Diacritics are tags placed above oder below (or sometimes next to) a letter in a word to indicate a extra pronunciation—in consider to accent, tone, otherwise stress—as well as significant, especially when a homograph exists without the marked letter or brief.
Merriam Webster Pronunciation Symbols. All pronunciation information is printed between reversed virgules. Pronunciation symbols are printed in roman type and all other information, such as labels and notes, is printed in italics.
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