Alex's phonetic thoughts

How do you pronounce words like piano , pieno , genio and riunire in Standard Italian Pronunciation (SIP)? Are they ˈpjano , ˈpjɛno, ˈp...

I’m sorry I wasn’t able to post any article last week and the week before. This was due to serious family problems. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ...

John Wells, on Friday 17 February 2012, had an article on Daniel Jones’s Cardinal Vowels accompanied by a very nice picture of an eagle ...

On 1 st August 2010, Scott Thornbury posted a provocative article on his blog about the usefulness/uselessness of teaching pronunciatio...

In reply to my blog post of the 14 th January 2012 on the subject of t epenthesis in Standard Italian Pronunciation (SIP), an anonymou...

[This week’s post was kindly written by Jack Windsor Lewis: many thanks, Jack!]  Alex, you commented
 January 14, 2012 at 10:39 am 
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(For some reason blogspot didn't let me use my usual font, Segoe UI, but I hope you'll be able to read my article all the same...