Alex's phonetic thoughts

It's so desperately sad to hear you are no longer with us, Bev ! The field of phonetics has lost a great man and a very knowledge...

  Nice joke, isn't it! It plays with the pronunciation of the terms horse and whores . In General British (GB) the former is (...

The term assiduity can be pronounced in all sorts of ways in General British (GB). It can be said as ˌasɪˈʤuːəti ~ ˌasəˈʤuːəti (more form...

Followers of this blog this week might like to read an article of mine published last Friday on the website Cambridge Linguistics . It...

In my book I discuss weak, strong, and contracted forms in 18 pages, namely from p. 110 to p. 127. To my knowledge, my manual is the only...

In Cruttenden's new Gimson's Pronunciation of English , Routledge (2014) , pp. 273-277 are devoted to the, for the EFL learner...

Have a look at this: The above screenshot is taken from p. 173 of the book Pronuncia dell'Inglese , Zanichelli, 2009. (For mo...