What one finds in their production is that there is a systematic voicing of the /s/ phoneme in all the examples above: e.g., cars => /karz/, boys => /boyz/, dimes => /daymz/, etc. The voicing rule applies as follows: [ [-voiced], C] => [ [+voiced], C] when preceded by a [+voiced], (C)onsonant].

See also: North American English regional phonology Compared with English as spoken in England, North American English is more homogeneous. Some distinctive accents can be found on the East Coast (for example, in eastern New England and New York City) partly because these areas were in close contact with England and imitated prestigious varieties of British English at …

There are many distinctions in the phonology of the Midland American English dialect. The word phonology refers to the sound and pronunciation of words. One of these distinctions is the caught/cot merger. The caught/cot merger causes that words caught and cot to become homophones, which means that they are pronounced in the exact same way. This type of …

Well, at first sight, it is. But if you really want to improve your pronunciation and sound like a native speaker, we highly recommend familiarizing yourself with all the allophones (different variants) of each phoneme in English language. Let's take the phoneme /t/, for example, in the following English words: today, two, water, certain. If you look up their pronunciation in a dictionary, most …

01/04/2016 · That is primarily because BrE is rhotic. For all the centering dipthongs in BrE, namely, ʊə, eə, and Iə, AmE will have the /r/ sound instead of the schwa (Melchers & Shaw 18). The long vowel in words like ‘boat’ and ‘home is also realized differently. BrE uses a dipthong with the phonetic symbol being /əʊ/.