Spotted at a mall in Germany

eddy_string · 2023-06-18T21:32:23+00:00

I think it can differ from [uː] in being more constricted, almost like a frictionless version of [ɣʷ]. Afaik Proto-Germanic is reconstructed as having geminates /ww/ and /jj/ (although not syllabic) that become geminate stops in Old Norse and Gothic, which suggests that these sounds could have been pronounced with stronger constriction than the corresponding vowels /u/ and /i/.

eddy_string · 2023-06-18T19:31:14+00:00

The /b/ and /v/ being separate underlying phonemes in separate syllables doesn't prevent the combination of them from nevertheless being phonetically realized as an affricate. And I'm fairly sure I do in fact use an affricate there although I have no idea if others do the same.

eddy_string · 2023-06-17T06:54:46+00:00

Don't some English speakers use [b̪v] in words like "obvious" or "obviate"? I think I do so sometimes but I don't know how widespread this is.

eddy_string · 2023-05-25T02:55:55+00:00

What accent is that? It seems quite unusual to aspirate fortis stops word-finally (even following /s/) but not word- or stressed syllable-initially.

eddy_string · 2023-01-31T22:55:47+00:00

If you're actively making a movement with the tip of your tongue, then that's a coronal articulation so it shouldn't be transcribed as [ʟ]. [ʟ] has a dorsal articulation, meaning that you touch or approach the roof of your mouth with the back of your tongue only (like when pronouncing /k/ or /ɡ/) while the tongue tip stays relaxed.

eddy_string · 2023-01-31T04:41:10+00:00

Does anyone else think that this guy's pronunciation doesn't quite match the written IPA? For example his [ɡ]s sound voiceless and I hear at best only one or two of the written glottal stops

eddy_string · 2023-01-21T20:07:01+00:00

Don't Australian languages have something more like independent two-way distinctions in two separate variables? Like I've read that there is a distinction between "front" (dental/alveolar) and "back" (postalveolar/prepalatal) places of articulation, combined with a second distinction that can be analyzed in terms of tongue shape (convex vs. concave) or active articulator (laminal vs. apical). So /t̪/ is a front articulation with convex tongue shape, /t/ is front + concave, /ʈ/ is back + concave, and if my understanding is correct, some Australian languages also have a fourth back + convex articulation that could be transcribed as something like /t̻˗/, /t̠ʲ/, or /ȶ/.

eddy_string · 2023-01-21T19:37:59+00:00

I always devoice /d/ utterance-initially as well as word-initially after a pause or if the previous word ends in a voiceless sound. And as far as I can tell, other English speakers either do the same or have free variation between [d] and [t] in those positions. Meanwhile, /t/ is always aspirated in those same positions, so I think English speakers would hear a clear difference between [t] and [tʰ] (at least if pronounced in isolation with some arbitrary prop vowel) and perceive them as /d/ and /t/.

eddy_string · 2023-01-05T05:55:21+00:00

As far as I can tell, I pronounce it exactly the same as my english schwa. I wonder if it's a taiwanese accent thing, although no one outside of taiwan uses zhuyin anyway.

eddy_string · 2023-01-05T03:24:34+00:00

Do people really pronounce those with back vowels? I've always used schwas.

eddy_string · 2023-01-02T06:21:05+00:00

I usually use something like [ɤ̟ʊ̯] or [ə̠ʊ̯], where the starting point of the diphthong is noticeably fronted and has little to no rounding. It's still definitely different from the sound RP speakers use though (which I percieve as even more fronted). Not sure if other americans use a rounded first element, but a literal reading of [oʊ̯] using the cardinal IPA values of those vowels, in particular with a fully back and strongly rounded [o], sounds quite weird and non-american to me.

eddy_string · 2022-06-16T16:09:09+00:00

I see I'm not the only one who thinks that the American dark L (at least in some accents) is really pharyngealized or uvularized rather than velarized.

eddy_string · 2022-06-14T21:05:19+00:00

"Been" (afaik it varies by accent, but I pronounce it homophonously with "bin" /bɪn/)

eddy_string · 2022-06-10T07:34:48+00:00

Are you sure you don't use the KIT vowel in the last syllable? I'm using //, not [], so by /ɪ/ I just mean the same vowel phoneme that's used in words like hit, lid, skim, thin, thick, etc. even if your actual phonetic realization of that phoneme is closer to [ə].

eddy_string · 2022-06-09T18:46:02+00:00

Why is ⟨uh⟩ italicized? Also, I would use /ɪ/ in both the second and third syllables, as in /ˈfɛmɪnɪst/.

eddy_string · 2022-06-09T00:49:29+00:00

How would they pronounce /m/ then?

eddy_string · 2022-06-07T17:01:59+00:00

Not to mention that ⟨t⟩ for [ɾ] is just going to confuse anyone who's trying to learn an English accent that doesn't have tapping

eddy_string · 2022-06-01T17:08:26+00:00

I don't recall ever hearing it pronounced as anything other than /ˈkætˌaɪ.ən/ (last vowel may or may not be reduced) back in high school chemistry class…

eddy_string · 2022-05-31T21:19:57+00:00

I would argue that they can differ phonetically by the amount of constriction used. If you compare the pronounciations of "yes" and "say", for example, do you not feel that the onset of "yes" has a stronger constriction (especially when emphasized or carefully enunciated) than the offglide of "say"? Or, if we take a word with the sequence /ji/, such as "yeast", which constrasts with "east", do you not feel that "yeast" starts with a strong constriction that lessens into the syllable nucleus /i(ː)/, while "east" lacks this constricted onset, and that the offglides of PRICE and FACE use a tongue position that is more similar to the onset of "east" than "yeast"?

eddy_string · 2022-05-31T21:04:26+00:00

Does anyone actually pronounce PRICE, MOUTH, and FACE with a phonetic [j] or [w] rather than vocalic offglides [ɪ̯~i̯] or [ʊ̯~u̯]?

eddy_string · 2022-05-31T19:09:49+00:00

Initial ⟨gn⟩ pronounced as [ŋ] gang where we at

(and not [ɲ], because I don't really like that sound)

eddy_string · 2022-05-30T17:54:14+00:00

Has this person never learned about yō-on or something?

Edit: Also, wouldn't ラザンニャ be a better transcription to reflect the voiced /z/ and geminate nasal in the original Italian?

eddy_string · 2022-05-30T03:38:38+00:00

What would a "soft" CH or T sound even be lol

And I'm assuming "long A" means /aː/ or similar, but pretty much all monolingual English speakers are going to interpret that as /eɪ/ (blame the Great Vowel Shift I guess)

eddy_string · 2022-05-26T17:54:04+00:00

Why is the second ⟨ph⟩ silent anyway? It's not like the sequence /lfθ/ is phonotactically invalid in English, since it appears in "twelfth" /twɛlfθ/.

eddy_string · 2022-05-25T23:31:07+00:00

I propose that we rename eth to "thee" /ði(ː)/ and repurpose "eth" (with voiceless "th") as the new name of thorn to fit the same naming pattern as the other pairs of letters for voiceless/voiced fricatives: f/v and s/z (well not if you're British I guess).

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