An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English

1st element accented syllable accentual pattern acoustic Advice to foreign affricates air-stream allophones alveolar ridge articulation articulatory bilabial British English Cardinal Vowel cavity central Chief sources close vowel closure connected speech consonantal dental Description devoicing diphthong eModE English especially final positions following vowel foreign learners formant fortis consonant French frequency fricative friction front vowel glide glottal glottis homorganic intonation labio-dental language length lenis linguistic lip-rounding medial morpheme mouth nasal consonant normally nucleus occur opposition pharynx phonemes pitch prominence place of articulation plosive post-vocalic preceding PresE pronounced pronunciation realized reduced region relatively release resonance retracted rhythmic RP speakers Scottish English secondary accent sequence seventeenth century soft palate sound spelling spelt stress tion tongue position unaccented syllables utterance variation velar vibration vocal cords voiced voiceless vowel quality word final word initial