The Pronunciation of English

affricate alveolar aspiration assimilation bǝt bət breathed consonants cardinal vowels dark ðat ðei ðət dɛə diphthong diphthong begins Examples ǝnd ənd əv də fall-rise fər final positions flap FLAPPED CONSONANTS fricative front fully voiced glottal stop half-open heard hiǝ instance intonation laik letters lip-rounding London dialectal speech meik monophthongal nasal consonants nounced nɔt open vowels ordinary partially voiced phonetic transcription plosion plosive consonants pronounced pronunciation r-coloured r-coloured vowels replaced represented phonetically RP speakers Scotland Scottish sense-groups sentence sequence sɛd shown in Fig similitude soft palate sometimes South strong stress strongly stressed syllable syllable symbol teeth-ridge Tongue position tongue-tip unrounded usual uvular variant variety voiced sounds voiceless weakly stressed wǝz wəz wɛn wið words written