Questions tagged [phonemes]
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American English retroflex 'd' in the word 'guardian'?
In American English fast speech, I have noticed that the 'd' sound in words like 'birdy' and 'guardian' sometimes appears to be pronounced as a voiced retroflex plosive (/ɖ/) instead of the standard voiced alveolar plosive (/d/). I would like to…
AehkGuu
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Where can I find an "official" list of English graphemes?
Do you know of a list provided by some academic institution? I did find some lists, but I am unable to judge the quality and/or completeness of these:
This pdf, referenced here.
and this pdf, referenced here.
Background: I am trying to program a…
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What is the relative frequency of English graphemes and/or phonemes in printed UK English texts/spoken English?
Having reviewed freely accessible research I found references to The Grapheme-Phoneme Problem in Reading and other spelling studies and have sought other frequency tables that describe the relative frequency of the letters (graphemes) used to…
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How do you syllabify "anxious" or "luxury" or "taxi"?
The grapheme X can sometimes be pronounced with a two-phoneme sequence, such as the following:
/ks/ - taxi
/gz/ - exact
/kʃ/ - anxious
/ŋz/ - anxiety
/gʒ/ - luxury
For these two-phoneme sequences, I'm wondering how the 2 phonemes are split across…
kanamekun
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Occurrences of voiced VS unvoiced 'th'
Is there a resource for determining how common one or the other is in English? I doubt that it varies between BrE vs AmE etc
Jim Mack
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English minimal pair for /uː/ and /ʊ/ in which /uː/ is rendered as [u]?
There are several English minimal pairs for the phonemes /ʊ/ and /uː/ in which the latter is pronounced [uː], not [u], according to 'common' pronunciation. For example, 'soot', /sʊt/ and 'suit', /suːt/.
However, I didn't manage to find a single…
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Are there other examples of names similar to "McKeen", with multiple capitals within a word and non-initial capital letter placement within graphemes?
I'm breaking down the phoneme-grapheme pairs for the name, "McKeen".
The "M" grapheme appears to represent the sound /mə/ ("muh"). I've noticed the "uh" sound is added sometimes to single consonants, similar to how Cthulhu is often pronounced…
kanamekun
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