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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 ...
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How did the “double consonant to shorten vowel” thing come about? (“furry” vs. “fury”)
In English, a doubled consonant most commonly means "shorten the previous vowel", where "shorten" means map phonemes like this:
[aɪ] -> [i]
[oʊ] -> [ɔ]
etc
For example, fury is pronounced [fjʊri] ...
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What is the name of the ɔʏ sound?
What's the English name of the oi sound written as "eu" and commonly found in Germanic words like Deutschland, and names like Euler and von Neumann?
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What’s the difference between /ӕ/ and /ɑ/?
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The first two a’s are different in their phonetic symbols in the dictionaries from the other two, but I can’t differentiate. ...
