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Other than the line where you have a sound changing to itself (k/k/#_), they're changes I buy.

Travis B. wrote:Yes, but us Americans don't think "ar" when we hear /ɑː/.

Yeah. As an American, I find using <r> to transcribe a long vowel misleading, since my idiolect is rhotic.

Edit: Deleted the second line of Travis's post in the quote so mine wouldn't be misinterpreted as an answer to his question.

This was on my homepage, and according to it, I'm guilty of mispronouncing almond , cache (which I swear I've posted in here about before), picture , and quinoa (in my head), all with the mispronunciations given. (I wasn't familiar enough with the word turmeric to judge myself on how I pronounce it.)

How common is a combined imperative/cohortative/jussive mood?

Suppose syllable-initial obstruents can optionally be followed by /ʔ/ or /h/. If /Zʔ Zh/, where Z is a voiced obstruent, develop into a slack-stiff contrast /Z̬ Z̥/, then: Is it plausible for /Z/ not followed by /ʔ h/ to devoice? What can I do with /S Sʔ Sh/ (where S is a voiceless obstruent) besid...

Interestingly, that link suggests long o in 'bolt' and 'polka', but that's wrong, as the wiktionary entries for those words shows (although it does give both options for 'bolt'). I might sometimes have a long O in 'bolt', but I think that's just non-SSBE parental influence showing through. I have i...

Suppose syllable-initial obstruents can optionally be followed by /ʔ/ or /h/. If /Zʔ Zh/, where Z is a voiced obstruent, develop into a slack-stiff contrast /Z̬ Z̥/, then: Is it plausible for /Z/ not followed by /ʔ h/ to devoice? What can I do with /S Sʔ Sh/ (where S is a voiceless obstruent) beside...

Interestingly, that link suggests long o in 'bolt' and 'polka', but that's wrong, as the wiktionary entries for those words shows (although it does give both options for 'bolt'). I might sometimes have a long O in 'bolt', but I think that's just non-SSBE parental influence showing through. I have i...

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I think stress and prosody are particularly important in proper names. This alone is enough for me to misinterpret them at times. (Think of the difference between Daniel and Danielle for instance.) Ditto. Stressing the wrong syllable in a person's name has led me to have difficulty understanding wh...

Reverted an /h/ that became /ʔ/ despite being word-initial. β :> v k ɡ h :> c ɟ ç before front vowels h :> x otherwise w j :> v ʝ [æ xol çøʔ ˈɣotɯn sɯ dɯ lævɑ ɯʔ dɯ çøʔ u dɯ ˈtiɲɔʔ u ˈɾiɲɑn ɯʔ dɯ ˈxɔzɯl u dɯ fæv ˈxɔdɑʔ | ɯʔ xɯˈzæn ˈmæɑ ˈɡɔʔ xoʔ dɑ nø lævɑ væ dɯ møʔ çɯʔ ˌɔtɯˈçtætɯn | ɯʔ f dɯ seʔ u ˈ...

Affricates deaffricate. Series of two different consonants (counting syllabic consonants) of the same manner of articulation become a geminate of the second. Word-finally, /t/ becomes /ʔ/ and /f s ʃ x/ all debuccalize to /h/. ɪɛ̯ ʏœ̯ :> jɛ ɥœ [ɛ hol høh ˈɣoːtn̩ sə də lɛwa ə̃ʔ də høh u də ˈtiɲɔh u ˈ...

/m n ŋ/ cause the preceding vowel to nasalize; they then drop when not before a vowel or semivowel. (Syllabic nasal consonants are perceived as becoming /ə̃/ for the purpose of this rule.) j w :> ʲ ʷ / _V EXCEPT $_V [ɛ wəl vɛus əˈxoːtə̃ t͡sə də lɔˤː ə̃t də vɛut͡s əv də ˈtĩːmɔs əv əˈdĩːnʲɐ̃ˤ ə̃t də ...

Chuma wrote:- Always base 16. It's the best base.

Makes me think your conworld's inhabitants are going to have an easier time with computer science than Earthlings xD

As a result, German /eː/ often ends up sounding like [iː] to me. Does to me, too, which is why my ears find the "E wie Emil" and the "I wie Ida" useful disambiguations. But couldn't the former end up sounding like " I wie Em i l"? Yes, but I got "E wie Emil" and "I wie Ida" from the German version ...

linguoboy wrote:As a result, German /eː/ often ends up sounding like [iː] to me.

Does to me, too, which is why my ears find the "E wie Emil" and the "I wie Ida" useful disambiguations.

Are there any other American English speakers here that don't Anglicize <niche>? I hear /nɪtʃ/ a lot, but my familiarity with French and the fact that <-iche> doesn't usually get pronounced /-ɪtʃ/ as far as I know lead me to pronouce it /niːʃ/, which I've read is the usual Canadian pronunciation.

I presume it's because we do not change it every single time. The historians conclude that /fæktɚiː/ instead of /fæktəɹiː/ for <factory> at the beginning is an unexpected change in the history of English (i.e., I'm letting it stand since so many changes have occurred already even though it's an ackn...

/r/ at the end of a word after a consonant becomes perceived as syllabic. ə :> Ø / VC_CV The following assimilations occur EXCEPT across word boundaries: Nasals assimilate in place of articulation to the following consonant. Voiceless obstruents voice before a voiced consonant. (I don't think this ...

OK, new statement time, I think. [ɪts ˈɡʊd tə ˌbiː ˈhoʊm ‖ maɪ ˈfɛloʊ əˈmɛɹɨkn̩z | mɪˈʃɛl ənd ˈaɪ həv ˌbɨn ˈsoʊ ˈtʰʌt͡ʃt baɪ ˈɔːl ðə ˈwɛlˌwɪʃɪz ˌwiːv ɹɨˈsiːvd ˈoʊvɚ ðə ˈpʰæst fjuː ˈwiːks ‖ ˌbət tʰəˈnaɪt ɪts ˈmaɪ ˌtʰɝn tə ˌseɪ ˈθæŋks ‖ ˈwɛðɚ wiːv ˈsiːn ˌaɪ tuː ˈaɪ ɔ˞ ˈɹɛɚliː əˈɡɹiːd ət ˈɔːl | maɪ ˌkɑ...

Yeah, you're right, but there are so many people who struggle with initial /ts/ or /ŋ/ despite having no problems at all saying "pizza" or "singer". I sometimes like to pronounce initial /n/s in English as [ŋ] just to see if people ngotice. It often baffles me that so many people have problems putt...

/ɾ̥ ɾ/ metathesize with adjacent consonants so they're next to vowels; any /ɾ̥ ɾ/ that still are not next to a vowel get an epenthetic /ə/ after them. /dz/ is reinterpreted as an affricate. /ks/ becomes /k͡x/. /ʕ/ vocalizes to /ɑ/. [ləˈbəsɾ̥ək͡x əz ɾə sajəˈɾ̥əfək ˈsɾ̥əɾi əv ˈliəbəd͡z ‖ ɾəɑ əɑ tɑi ˈ...

Speaking of IPA, does anyone know of a better version of the English-International keyboard? One that has all the Latin letter variants? I'm not satisfied with just á à ä â ã å æ, I'd like to see ă ā ą as well if there is enough room? Also for consonants. I'm tired of having like 10 different keybo...

Fronting of velars to alveolars of some description, and uvulars to velars could then phonemicise the front/back distinction leaving me with /i iː ɪ u uː ʊ e eː ɛ o oː ɔ a aː (ə or ʌ)/ which would then probably be unstable as hell thanks to the 5-way height contrast. Thoughts? Based on English, I d...

What are interesting things I can do to glottalic consonants besides just merging them into their pulmonic counterparts? (I'm already aware of /s’/'s tendency to want to become /t͡s’/.)