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Quality of American English front vowels before /r/

Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol. 33, No. 1 (June 2003), pp. 1-16 (16 pages) The vowels /i/ and /I/ are not contrastive before /r/ in American English, and the phonetics ...
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'IPA Chart', a website where you can listen to the actual pronunciation of the International Phonetic Alphabet for free

many languages in the world, and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is defined to describe the pronunciation of every language in the world. In the ' IPA Chart ', you can hear the actual ...
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11 Fun Facts About the International Phonetic Alphabet

Every writing system represents speech a little differently, and no system is completely faithful to how words are actually pronounced. For over a century, the International Phonetic Alphabet has ...
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Direct mapping of acoustics to phonology: On the lexical encoding of front rounded vowels in L1 English-L2 French acquisition

It is well known that adult US-English-speaking learners of French experience difficulties acquiring high /y/-/u/ and mid /œ/-/o/ front vs. back rounded vowel contrasts in French. This study examines ...