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What’s the difference between /ӕ/ and /ɑ/?
. . . alibis . . . appetite . . . rather . . . Mark . . . [audio source]
The first two a’s are different in their phonetic symbols in the dictionaries from the other two, but I can’t differentiate. ...
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Looking for a minimal triple
I am looking for a minimal triple for a particular set of phonemes. By minimal triple, I mean three actual English words that differ in one and only one phoneme between them. Examples therefore ...
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In IPA, what is the difference between ə and ʌ?
In all the examples I've seen they seem to be the same sound.
Examples of ə:
a in about
a in comma
Examples of ʌ:
u in run
o in won
I am trying to decipher the difference between these sounds ...
