New posts in phonology

"Initial" is pronounced "inishal," so why isn't the verb "initiate" pronounced "inishate"?

Why are 'electric', 'electricity' and 'electrician' pronounced differently?

Where does "Whatcha" & "Didja" come from?

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?

What is the use of "w" as Semi-vowel?

American refusal of the IPA: why?

Why and when was the trilled R in middle English replaced by the modern untrilled one?

Is there such a thing as an unvoiced vowel?

When we will use soft and hard sound in 'c'? [closed]

does sound th as d makes any difference in fast speech?

Is the underlying form of "n" /n/ or /ŋ/ in words ending in -nk?

Why are dictionary transcriptions contradictory for the phonetic representation of oranges?

Are what-cha and arent-cha examples of elision?

Syllabification of "riding"

Singular to plural noun [duplicate]

Why does the preterite of verbs such as "deal", "feel" and "dream" have a devoiced dental suffix?

Why is there a flap allophone of /t/ but not of /k/ or /p/?

How common is pronouncing the past tense of beat as /bet/?

Why did /x/ change to /f/ in English?

What is the trend in pronouncing the word "strength"? [closed]