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X-ray movie: uvular [ʀ]
A short sequence from an X-ray motion film: Uvular [yʀa] This is a short sequence where a speaker of Southern Swedish is saying [ˈyʀa], broken out from a longer sequence, /ˈfy:ra/, [ˈfəyʀa], fyra, ‘four’. This example is illustrated with every … Continue reading
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Grandfather and Martha’s Vineyard
xxx Map of Martha’s Vineyard. Source: Labov (1963) Martha’s Vineyard is an island off the Massachusetts coast SW of Cape Cod, and a popular resort for Bostonians. The permanent population are famous in various ways. Until not so very long … Continue reading
Posted in Accents, Articulation, Dialects, English, genealogy, Kent, Martha's Vineyard, Pronunciation, Vowels
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Southern British English 3
Home Counties SBE vowel formants This page continues from Part 2, that introduced a spectrographic study of the monophthong vowels of five speakers of RP. A similar study for five speakers of home counties SBE is presented now. The home … Continue reading
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Southern British English 2
RP SBE vowel formants This page introduces a spectrographic study of the monophthong vowels of five speakers of RP (the same five speakers who were introduced in Part 1). Together, they cover 100 years (birth years from 1874 to 1961), … Continue reading
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Tagged accents, dialects, pronunciation, RP, Southern British English, vowels
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Rhoticity in Lancashire 3: Preston to Colne
This page continues from the first part of this series, which has the introduction, definition of rhoticity, and the report for Area A (Liverpool-Manchester). The report for Area B (Southport, Chorley, Bolton, Rochdale) is here. This page reports Area C … Continue reading
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Tagged articulation, consonants, dialects, Northern English, rhoticity
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Southern British English 1
1. Estuary English before Rosewarne Some 25 years ago I was confronted with an enigmatic comment “You do this new thing awfully well”, followed by a necessary explanation, “the way you speak”. That new thing? What new thing? I’d … Continue reading
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Correlation and causality: ejectives
Spurious correlations “Recent studies have been uncovering some surprising links between cultural traits. For example, between chocolate consumption and the number of Nobel laureates a country produces, between the number of phonemes in a language and distance from East Africa, … Continue reading
Posted in Articulation, Caucasia, Caucasus, Consonants, Ejectives, English, Methods
Tagged consonants, ejectives, Kartvelian, phonetics, phonology
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Rhoticity in Lancashire: Liverpool – Manchester
The aim of this article is to check some on-line sources for evidence of changing habits of rhoticity in Lancashire accents. Rhoticity is concerned with the pronunciation of the consonant r. In English, rhotic speakers pronounce all instances of /r/, … Continue reading
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The Bell vowel model: its acoustic weaknesses
1. The single resonance and two resonance theories. Bell coupled his new vowel model to the then popular single resonance theory, claiming the vowel tone (resonance) depended on the dimensions of the buccal cavity. In Visible Speech (1867:71), he postulated … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Melville Bell, articulation, phonetics, speech acoustics, speech production, vowels
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The ancient throat-tongue-lip model
Vowel articulation: The ancient throat-tongue-lip model This page continues from The Bell vowel model. References in a new page. The two classes of model Ancient India Throat vowels Palatal vowels Labial vowels Aperture Ancient Rome Renaissance Before Alexander Melville Bell … Continue reading
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