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  1. What is the difference between "phonetic" and "phonemic"?

    Phonemics, or Phonology, is the study of the distribution of sound systems in human languages. A Phoneme is a particular set of sounds produced in a particular language and distinguishable …

  2. phonetics - The /ɪ/ sound vs the /i/ sound - exact difference ...

    May 29, 2019 · The /i/ sound is just the short version of /i:/; without the ː length mark it is shorter. Just as you can find /i:/ in words like peat, the /i/ sound is found in words like happiness where …

  3. What is the /ū/ sound in English symbol?

    May 16, 2019 · Popular phonetic symbols, e.g., KK and DJ, are based on IPA, but not IPA. One more example, the phonetic symbol of Merriam-Webster dictionary is totally different from IPA.

  4. Are "phonics" and "Phoenician" related? - English Language

    Nov 29, 2018 · The word phonetic is of Greek origin (φωνή {phōni} = voice). Greek writing probably first emerged in the 8th century BCE. What its predecessors appear to have lacked, …

  5. pronunciation - Is there any online tool to read (pronounce) IPA …

    Aug 2, 2015 · I am looking for a tool to read a word written as phonetic transcription (IPA or APA). I need it to provide users with a tool to verify if they've chosen the correct IPA transcription …

  6. Difference between IPA ɚ, ɹ, and ɝ - English Language & Usage …

    Aug 24, 2014 · Wanting to be more Californian and trying to correct my accent, I'm looking at the sound for mother, in the North America column. What is the difference between IPA symbols …

  7. When is the old english letter Æ/æ modernised to A, E and AE?

    Jan 21, 2023 · The letter Æ/æ in Old English represented a monophthongal vowel that could be either of two lengths: short (transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /æ/) or long …

  8. Phonetic differences between ɑ and ɒ in English and American ...

    Dec 7, 2018 · But on Collins dictionary, for which I am referring to, as they have IPA phonetic representations for both British and American English, the following words follow a similar …

  9. pronunciation - Phonetic symbol - superscript h in Which - English ...

    Mar 26, 2022 · Q1) What is the meaning of the small h (superscript h) in the phonetic symbols of which shown in Collins? ʰwɪ̠tʃ the small h means 'complete silence' (= just ignore h) the small h …

  10. What phonetic notation is Google dictionary using?

    Sep 24, 2011 · But I don't know what phonetic notation it is using. For example, the "y" in prefix "hypo" is pronounced differently with following phonetic notation in Google: