Questions tagged [yod-coalescence]
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Pronunciation of tissue [duplicate]
I have heard two pronunciations for the word tissue. Tishoo and Tisyou.
Tishoo is of course the one in common use but what is the current status on Tisyou ?
It ''feels'' like an archaic way of ...
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Does [z] + [j] equal [ ʒ ]?
Could it be that sometimes the voiced alveolar sibilant [z] at the end of a syllable merges with a following palatal approximant [j] to produce a voiced postalveolar sibilant [ʒ]?
Bob Dylan clearly ...
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The strange pronunciations of "assume"
Just a curious question:
Why is "assume" pronounced so funny by many native speakers?
I can't think of any other word where "ss" is pronounced like that.
A bit hard to explain via ...
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Where does "Whatcha" & "Didja" come from?
Does anyone know where "Whatcha" and/or "Didja" originate from?
Watcha: What did you?
Didja: Did you?
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I cannot find these words in my English Grammar books and they are ...
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How common is yod-coalescence in modern RP?
I am an non native English speaker in where the some pronunciations taught have been obsolete in British English . Recently, I've got some time to do my research and discovered something called yod-...
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Do Americans pronounce "transient" as \ˈtran(t)-sh(ē-)ənt\?
Merriam-Webster pronounces "transient" as \ˈtran(t)-sh(ē-)ənt\.
However, most Americans pronounce it as \ˈtran-zē-ənt\.
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“kinda”, “sorta”, “coulda”, “shoulda”, “lotta”, “oughta”, “betcha”, "tseasy", etc. What are these?
In linguistics, is there a term describing this phenomenon, i.e., when the syllables of two words are slurred together in the spoken language? They are not contractions. While contractions are ...
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Are what-cha and arent-cha examples of elision?
Are these words examples of elision? What effect do they create? If a child says them what does this suggest about their language development?
Thanks for any help!!
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What is the name of the phoneme produced in an upper-class Briton's pronunciation of the word "Duke"? What's different in the articulation?
When someone with a Received Pronunciation accent pronounces the word duke, as in The Duke of York, he doesn't pronounce it with a "hard" 'd', as one might pronounce the word duh, but a softer type 'd'...
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