enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. English phonology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology

    A phoneme of a language or dialect is an abstraction of a speech sound or of a group of different sounds that are all perceived to have the same function by speakers of that particular language or dialect. For example, the English word through consists of three phonemes

  3. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_correspondences...

    The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects. The symbols for the diaphonemes are given in bold, followed by their most common phonetic values.

  4. Regional accents of English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accents_of_English

    English accents can differ enough to create room for misunderstandings. For example, the pronunciation of "pearl" in some variants of Scottish English can sound like the entirely unrelated word "petal" to an American. For a summary of the differences between accents, see Sound correspondences between English accents.

  5. List of dialects of English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English

    Indian English: Standard Indian English. Indian English: the "standard" English used by government administration, it derives from the British Indian Empire. Butler English: (also Bearer English or Kitchen English), once an occupational dialect, now a social dialect. Hinglish: a growing macaronic hybrid use of English and Indian languages.

  6. Phoneme - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneme

    A simplified procedure for determining whether two sounds represent the same or different phonemes. A phoneme is a sound or a group of different sounds perceived to have the same function by speakers of the language or dialect in question. An example is the English phoneme /k/, which occurs in words such as cat, kit, scat, skit.

  7. Phonological history of English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../Phonological_history_of_English

    The Elder Futhark of the Proto-Norse language still contained different symbols for the two sounds. z-umlaut: /e/ is raised to /i/ before /z/. Early PGmc *mez "me, dative" > late PGmc *miz > Old High German mir, Old Saxon mi, Old Norse mér (with general lowering and lengthening of i before r).

  8. Pronunciation of English a - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_English...

    In the sociolinguistics of English, /æ/ raising is a process that occurs in many accents of American English, and to some degree in Canadian English, by which / æ / ⓘ, the "short a" vowel found in such words as ash, bath, man, lamp, pal, rag, sack, trap, etc., is tensed: pronounced as more raised, and lengthened and/or diphthongized in ...

  9. Phonology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonology

    Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phonemes or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs.The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a particular language variety.