Timeline for Can someone help me with the transcription of the word ´mother´? (IPA)
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| Apr 23, 2018 at 22:31 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @MIa If you found the simple answer yourself in no time, that’s presumably not what you’re looking for here. If so, you should include that in the question and then add what exactly it is you are looking for. If you’re looking for an analysis of a why, tell us which why you find unclear. I think, from your earlier comment, your main confusion is that you seem to think the words father, hot, and cup have the same vowel. They don’t. In some dialects, father/hot is one vowel and cup another; in other dialects all three are distinct. But nowhere are they all the same. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 10:17 | comment | added | MIa | @SomethingDark, I found the answer myself in no time but I thought that this is the place where people can think about other possibilities or can analyse why is something like it is. That´s why I asked. I thought that maybe someone experienced could somehow explain to me the difference between two examples I gave, But thanks anyhow... | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 10:01 | comment | added | SomethingDark | @Kris - whoever downvoted was within their rights to do so; if you hover over the downvote button, it reads "this question does not show any research effort." That is true, since I didn't know the answer either (I'm not familiar with IPA) and I found the answer in about five seconds. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 9:18 | comment | added | MIa | I am sorry If a was mean, I just, sometimes it seems to be more reliable if you ask more people for their opinion. Sorry If my question was lame. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 9:17 | comment | added | Kris | I do think so, even some non-native speakers who are familiar with the popular pronunciation. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 9:16 | comment | added | Kris | Folks, please don't down vote newbies. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 9:14 | comment | added | MIa | Kris, you think that a native speaker can´t have a trouble with the transcription? Well.. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 9:13 | comment | added | Kris | Welcome to ELU, Mia. This place is for advanced questions on English language and usage. For simpler questions, there is English Language Learners, which is especially useful to non-native speakers of the English language. Good Luck. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 9:12 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 23, 2018 at 9:12 | comment | added | MIa | I thought there is some pattern, vowel A is always transcribed as /ɑ/ (as in father), vowel O (in word where O is obviously pronounced as A) it is transcribed with /ɑ/ (as in hot) and vowel U (again, in words where it is obviously pronounced as A) it is transcribed as /ʌ/ (as in cup). I looked to the dictionary, but I was not sure if it is not the American pronounciation (or other accent pronounciation). | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 9:02 | comment | added | JeffUK | It was a very straightforward question, I don't see how it's mean to ask you to help us help you.. What did that source say? What did you not understand about it, how can we help you understand that source better? | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 8:57 | comment | added | MIa | Yes, I did. You people are sometimes so mean. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 8:55 | comment | added | JeffUK | Have you looked at any source, like a dictionary, to see what they say? | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 8:55 | answer | added | SomethingDark | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 8:52 | review | First posts | |||
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| Apr 23, 2018 at 8:50 | history | asked | MIa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |