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  2. Help:IPA/Japanese - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Japanese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Japanese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  3. Mami (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Mami Teramoto, a character from the English-language webcomic series Megatokyo Mami Hiyama, a character from the game and anime Little Battlers Experience W Mami Tomoe (巴 マミ), a character from Puella Magi Madoka Magica

  4. Mama and papa - Wikipedia

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    Mama and papa use speech sounds that are among the easiest to produce: bilabial consonants like /m/, /p/, and /b/, and the open vowel /a/.They are, therefore, often among the first word-like sounds made by babbling babies (babble words), and parents tend to associate the first sound babies make with themselves and to employ them subsequently as part of their baby-talk lexicon.

  5. List of shibboleths - Wikipedia

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    Suspects not fluent in Spanish either did not know or could not properly pronounce the Spanish word perejil ("parsley"). The pronunciation of the word by Haitian citizens tended to be with a trilled r, unlike the native Spanish tapped r, and without the 'l' at the end of the word. [15]

  6. Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers

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    The Japanese liquid is most often realized as an alveolar tap [ɾ], though there is some variation depending on phonetic context. [1] /r/ of American English (the dialect Japanese speakers are typically exposed to) is most commonly a postalveolar central approximant with simultaneous secondary pharyngeal constriction [ɹ̠ˤ] or less commonly a retroflex approximant [ɻ].

  7. Are you a ‘Mother’? What to know about the slang word - AOL

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    “In a ballroom context, a mother can be a ‘drag mother’ who teaches a new queen the art and perhaps the business of drag or vogue or emceeing — a present figure who enables their self ...

  8. How do you pronounce Dolphins RB De’Von Achane’s name? (Hint ...

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    There has been a change in how to correctly pronounce Miami Dolphins rookie running back De’Von Achane’s name. Following his record-setting performance for 203 rushing yards and four ...

  9. Non-native pronunciations of English - Wikipedia

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    Non-native pronunciations of English result from the common linguistic phenomenon in which non-native speakers of any language tend to transfer the intonation, phonological processes and pronunciation rules of their first language into their English speech. They may also create innovative pronunciations not found in the speaker's native language.