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The pronunciation of north american english

The pronunciation of north american english. NAnEng vowels. Phonological differences from RP Phonetic differences from RP. Phonological differences. Rp vowels NAmEng

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The pronunciation of north american english

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  1. Thepronunciation of northamericanenglish

  2. NAnEng vowels • Phonological differences from RP • Phonetic differences from RP

  3. Phonological differences • Rp vowels NAmEng • /ɒ/ /ɑ/ • /æ/ / æ/ • /ɑː/

  4. Easy to identify correpondences • Wordsspelledwitha: • RP NAmEng • Cat • Bad /æ/ /æ/ • Man • wordsspelledwitho • RP NAmEng • Pot • Top / ɒ/ /ɑ/ • Nod

  5. RP distinction NAmEng • /ɒ/ - /ɑː/ /ɑ/ • Bomb - Balm Bomb • Balm • Father • Bother • Calm

  6. Rhoticity • RP NAmEng • Gnaw /nɔː/ /nɔː/ • Nor /nɔːr/ • Cod /kɒd/ /kɑd/ • Card /kɑːd/ /kɑrd/

  7. Phonetic differences • The vowel of pot is unrounded [ɑ] in NAmEng, rounded [ɒ] in RP. • The vowel /ɔ/ of paw in USEng tends to be shorter, more open and less rounded than the equivalent vowel /ɔː/ in RP • Very front realizations of /ou/ such as RP [əʊ] are not found in most variaties of NAmEng.

  8. North American Englishconsonants ʔ d̯ • Glottal stop is found as an allophone of /t/ maily before /n/ Button [bəʔn] and before /l/: bottle [bɑʔl] • The RP differentiation of /l/: [l] vs [ɫ] is not so strong in NAmEng. In most variaties, /l/ is fairly dark in all positions. • Intervocalic /t/ is normally a vocalic flap [d̯ ], not unlike the flapped /r/ of ScotEng: ladder [læ. d̯ ɹ̝]

  9. Regional variation in UnitedStatesEnglish • Lower south: • Eastern of Virginia, eastern North Carolina, eastern South Carolina, northern Florida, southern Alabama, Mississippi, Lousianaand south-eastern Texas.

  10. 1. lower Southern accents are non-rhotic, many of them are so non-rhotic, that they lack linking and intrusive /r/ • 2. the vowels /e/ /ɪ/ /æ/ often take a [ə] offglide in many stressed monosyllables. Bed [bejəd] • 3. the vowel /ai/ is often a monothong of the type [a:], as in high [ha:]

  11. 4. the /ei/ and /ou/ diphtongs tend to havefirst elements rather more open than elsewhere in North America. • 5. The vowel /e/ /ɪ/ are not distinct before a nasal consonant, so that words such as pin and pen are identical. • 6. The verb forms isn’t, wasn’t are often pronounced with /d/rather than /z/: idnt – idn/.

  12. Inland Southern

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