Standard English Speech: A Compendium of English Phonetics for Foreign Students

alliteration Anglic articulated assimilation back vowel become breath breath-group Broad symbols broad transcription cardinal vowels cockney cockney speech consonant-groups consonant-sounds descending stress dialect difficulty diphthong distinct emphatic final followed foreign speakers foreign student French fricative front vowels fully long German glide glottal plosive gramophone records half-long hard palate heard imitate insert intervocal language latter length length-mark lengthened lip-rounding lips liquid long vowels low-drop-back low-mid lower marked mixed vowel Narrow symbols nasal nasal consonant neutral vowel normal Northern nunciation pharynx phonetic texts pitch place of articulation plosion plosive consonants position postdental produced pronounced pronunciation retracted rounded short vowels shortened slightly soft palate sonant sound speakers of St spelling spoken stressed vowel stressed words substitute supported consonant Swedish Sweet's tense vowel tongue rises tongue-movement transcribed unrounded unstressed syllables unvoiced uvula variety vocal murmurs voiced consonant voiceless consonant vowel-sounds