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Is the North American /æ/ sound more like /a/ or /ɛ/?
I’m a foreigner living in North America, and:
I am fine with pronouncing the /ɛ/ sound, as in beg, men, and dead.
However, I’ve been struggling with the correct pronunciation of the /æ/ sound, as in ...
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Acoustic description of the realization [ɛə] of the North American raised /æ/
The Wikipedia article on /æ/ raising uses the transcription [ɛə] for a realization of the North American raised /æ/, as in the words ram and ran. I'm having trouble interpreting this transcription, ...
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How to pronounce /æ/ in American English? [duplicate]
This one is really hard for me because I feel like it has at least two pronunciations.
Examples:
bad /bæd/ where it sounds more like /ee/
practice /præktəs/ where it sounds more like /aa/
Can ...
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Pronunciation of /æ/, when it comes before /m/ or /n/
I believe when /æ/ comes before m or n , it’s pronounced [ɛə] instead of [æ], (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//%C3%A6/_raising)
but is it always the case？For example, how about the main stress is not ...
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What’s the rule for the sound of the letter A in the middle of three-letter words?
How do you actually pronounce A when it's in the middle of a 3 letter word like mac or rap?
I hear many Americans say those words with a clear AAA sound, like the AA sound of the start of the word ...
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How would you transcribe and/or describe this vowel?
I'm analyzing the /æ/ vowel sound (also known as 'short A') found in words like cat, dad, or man. I am particularly interested in how that sound is realized in different dialects of American English ...
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What is the difference between /a/ and /æ/?
I don't quite understand the difference between /a/ and /æ/.
Google gives the transcription for 'add' as /ad/, while Wiktionary returns /æd/.
Are these sounds actually distinct or is this just two ...
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Can /æ/ raising produce homophones in American English?
Can words like "bend" and "band" merge in AmEn? I always thought they should not but here's a confusing example:
https://youtu.be/_C0mc7ZOMF4
To my ear this gentleman pronounces "bend" as [bɛənd] and ...
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What was the pronunciation of the a in "trap" in early to mid Modern English in the UK?
I have often read that in Old and Middle English the "a" sound in words like "trap" was pronouned /a/. When it comes to modern English, Wikipedia suggests that this was raised to /æ/ in early Modern ...
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Difference between /æ/ and /ɛ/
I can see that several questions (1, 2) have already been asked about this, but I would like to ask specifically in the context of Russian phonetics. Russian is my native language, but I'm fluent in ...
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Does æ differ or not (American English)?
There is a Cambridge American English Dictionary web-site. I was checking pronunciation on some words that have a common sound "æ". Although the sound supposed to be the same, its pronunciation ...
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Vowel in "-ang" and "-ank" Words: Pronunciation and Dictionary Transcription
Has anyone found the vowel in "-ang" and "-ank" words transcribed differently than /æ/? The sound, to my ear, is not the same as the /æ/ sound in words like "ran." I hear ...
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Sound of vowel æ
I'm reading Ann Cook's book on American Accent Training and she says:
æ is a combination of the tense vowel /a:/ and lax vowel /e/
Is this a true statement? I tried hard but I couldn't glide into ...
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discerning /æ/ and /e/ sounds
As I am a foreigner, I have great difficulty differentiating the sounds /æ/ and /e/ . When spoken softly, it becomes almost impossible for me to discern the sounds. Such as this one from movie ...
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'Sag' and 'slant': Is the vowel /æ/ the same in both words?
/sæg/
/slænt/
Transcriptions from Cambridge American English Dictionary
Both the words' IPA transcriptions have an /æ/ symbol. Do those two /æ/s sound the same?
Are they both short or long?
Is /æ/ ...
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"France" pronunciation; /æ/ vs. /e/ in American accents
Native North American speakers! Please, help me understand one thing:
I thought I understood the difference between the /æ/ and /e/ sounds, but now I doubt that anyone can. Please listen to the US ...
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Can vs that ( /kæn/ vs /ðæt/ )
I’ve finally decided to take a look at my English pronunciation and it is being an awesome new world. I am focused on Received Pronunciation (British Standard) and one question comes to mind for which ...
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Pronunciation of words like thanks, land, and
This words are always written with æ but I always hear them pronounced like thenk, lend, end... I read that this pronunciation was and old-style, but I have hardly ever heard them pronounced -[ænd]. ...
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Is the /æ/ sound always same?
I have an issue with the /æ/ sound. There is no such vowel sound in my native language, which is Russian, so it's quite problematic for me to master this sound. The main problem is I can't even HEAR ...
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Is /e/ a new trend for /æ/ in America?
paranoid /ˈperəˌnoɪd/
Is there a trend that /æ/ makes a transition to /e/ in America?
When I first came across the pronunciation in Merriam-Webster’s Advanced Learner’s (2008 version), I thought ...
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Is there a rule for how to pronounce words such as "dance", "prance", "castle"?
Is there a grammatical rule for the pronunciation of words such as dance, castle and prance? I believe the British English pronunciation is "ah", while in American English it is a short "a" sound.
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difference between American and British /ӕ/ sound
When I presented British /ӕ/ sound to three Korean English-familiar persons online - they are doing answering English-related questions activities [case 1; case 2], and asked what sound it’s like /ӕ/ ...
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Pronunciation of Bank, Tank, etc.: Bay-nk, Ray-nk or Baen-k or Raen-k?
What is the standard US pronunciation for words such as the following:
Bank
Rank
At least in my dialect of US English (Inland Northern), the following seem like close transcriptions:
Bank: bay-nk ...
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Is /æ/ pronunced like the shortened version of /ɑː/?
Is /æ/ pronounced like the shortened version of /ɑː/? Or are they totally different?
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How is "æ" supposed to be pronounced?
The Encyclopædia Brittanica still uses the symbol "æ". However, I still hear everyone pronounce it as "Encyclo pee dia", when their spelling suggests more along the lines of "Encyclo pah dia" or "...
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Correct pronunciation of "Can"
How to correctly pronounce word "can" in British English and in American English?
Here's somehow related answer but it is more about differences between "can" and "can't", and I'm interested how to ...
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Pronunciation of vowel in vague as [æ] instead of [eɪ]
I have a friend who pronounces the vowel in plague, vague, and bagel as [æ] instead of the standard [eɪ] (so plague rhymes with flag, for instance). Interestingly, he apparently can't tell the ...
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What is the correct pronunciation of the word “ma’am”?
Back in the day, the word ma’am (when addressing the Queen) was always pronounced “marm”. British TV shows from before the 80s confirm this.
In the movie The Queen, we are told that the correct ...
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Sounds of the letter a
How can I know, precisely, when to differentiate the sounds of the letter a, like in: apple and vault?
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How can I practice differentiating between the /æ/ and /ɛ/ sounds in English phonology?
For a non-native English speaker like me, it's always been hard to sound /æ/ and /ɛ/ differently. For example, "salary" and "celery" are two words that I tend to pronounce ...
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