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How do you pronounce English? #1 (permalink) Tue Feb 20, 2007 21:10 pm   How do you pronounce English?
 

Hi,

In the article Whatever happened to Received Pronunciation?, available at http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/rphappened.htm ,Professor John C. Wells discusses changes within the RP accent in the twentieth century.

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Loss of tapped /r/. A further change from this period was the loss of the alveolar tap [ɾ] as a usual realization of /r/ between vowels, as in very sorry, better off. It has been replaced by the ordinary approximant [ɹ].


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Jones pronounced actual as /ˈ?ktjuəl/, a variant that nowadays would be perceived as mannered or indeed artificial: we say /ˈ?ktʃuəl, ˈ?ktʃl, ˈ?ktʃo/.


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Tensing of final and prevocalic /ɪ/. The final vowel in words such happy, coffee, valley was traditionally identified with the /ɪ/ of bit. But many speakers nowadays identify it with the /iː/ of beat.


Are these changes apparent in your speech?

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How do you pronounce English? #2 (permalink) Sat May 01, 2010 23:27 pm   How do you pronounce English?
 

I don't understand all this. Please can you help?
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How do you pronounce English? #3 (permalink) Sat May 01, 2010 23:35 pm   How do you pronounce English?
 

Hello Vera,

That post uses phonetic symbols to explain in writing how words should sound.
If you haven't used it then at this stage please don't worry about not understanding it.
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