tailieunhanh - Gimson's pronunciation of english part 11

Gimson's pronunciation of english part 11. Bài tập luyện ngữ pháp tiếng anh cho mọi người, đây là tài liệu hay và hữu ích có thể giúp các bạn có thể nắm vững được các ngữ pháp tiếng anh cụ thể. | 118 The SiundiefEngfhh reduced fa of can Is somewhat longer than the short a of cut. la docs not normally occur before g . A variety of a retracted near to the quality of C. a 5 typical of Refined RP and n some words a pronunciation with a rather than is typical of Refined RP . In gymnastic and Atlantic. It should also be noted that smoothing of the sequences aid and aua fire lower may produce a new long vowel a or this may fall together with la see Fig. 17 . Figure 17 Variants of loti. 3 Regional variants A quality near to is typical of Australian English and in much of south-west England as well as in some cities in the north of England . Liverpool Manchester and Leeds. In some parts of the south-west where the short vowels are in general lengthened the fronting of a may thus lead to neutralization between a and Ixl. Where an a is followed in RP by a voiceless fricative or by a nasal plus a second consonant. General American and the north of England have a . In laugh pass branch advance. Australian has the variation but limited to the nasal plus consonant words. Such a pronunciation may be allowable as part of a Regional RP particularly If the a Is given the extra length usual in RP but not usual in northern England. In many dialects including General American and that of south-west England RP a corresponds in a number of words to la. l ltl indicated by an r in the spelling . in car card large such dialects having r in positions other than before a vowel are called wionc see . This also applies to Standard Scottish English but here in addition the remaining instances of RP a fall together with a and there is thus no contrast between these words cam and calm Pam and palm being pronounced equivalently. Although RP a followed by a voiceless fricative or a nasal plus second consonant generally corresponds to Ixl in northern English the reverse is not true that is there are examples where RP itself has Ixl in these contexts . passage .