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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. In IPA transcription, what is the difference between “ɪ”, "i", “i:”?

    Apr 5, 2023 · Phonemic transcription IS the IPA's original intended use since 1888. And since narrowness is a continuum, even in allophonic transcriptions you can never tell what sound …

  3. Why phonemic symbols are different between dictionaries

    Feb 5, 2019 · I find the phonemic symbols are different for the same word between dictionaries. Take the word "tuck" for example. In Oxford Learner's Dictionary, its /tʌk/ for both …

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

    May 29, 2019 · See "The Undesirability of length marks in EFL phonemic transcription", (1975), by Jack Windsor Lewis. Especially in transcriptions of American English, it's common to represent …

  5. pronunciation - Could you clarify /e/ and /ɛ/? - English Language ...

    Feb 4, 2016 · The phonemic forms of the two examples I've mentioned, I take to be /bɛj/ "bay" and /bɛti/ "Betty". In classical phonemics, minimal pairs have a special significance.

  6. Reason behind Oxford Dictionaries's IPA transcription?

    Mar 9, 2019 · For some reason or another, I was looking at the Oxford Dictionaries definition for ailurophile (cat-lover). Then I noticed that, underneath its Pronunciation header, it gives the …

  7. Is /kləʊðz/ really the correct phonetic transcription of the word ...

    Jul 13, 2017 · In words like grieves, clothes, many speakers stop the voicing of the final /z/ earlier than you might expect from the phonemic transcription. Most English speakers still hear the …

  8. phonetics - What did we gain in return for the loss of phonemic …

    And yet, Latin’s predictable stress was also replaced with a new phonemic stress in Spanish; for example, término, termino, terminó are a minimal triple. Did the same thing happen to Old …

  9. Pronouncing the final "‑ing" inflection as [əŋ] instead of as [ɪŋ]

    Feb 16, 2018 · The ‑ing verbal inflection ending is, in the abstract, a phonemic /ɪŋ/. Those phonemes usually get realized phonetically as literally the sounds [ɪŋ] in General American, …

  10. Psychology of diphthongs - English Language & Usage Stack …

    Sep 10, 2017 · The three phonemic diphthongs are the only ones that "count": /ɔɪ/ and /aʊ/ and /aɪ/. Everything else is a non-phonemic phonetic effect that varies between between regions, …