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The tradition of Received Pronunciation is usually credited to the British phonetician Daniel Jones. In the first edition of the English Pronouncing Dictionary (1917), he named the accent "Public School Pronunciation"; for the second edition in 1926 he wrote: "In what follows I call it Received Pronunciation, for want of a better term."
For each IPA symbol, an English example is given where possible; here "RP" stands for Received Pronunciation. The foreign languages that are used to illustrate additional sounds are primarily the ones most likely to be familiar to English speakers: French , Standard German and Spanish .
The widely recognised dialects include Malayali English, Telugu English, Maharashtrian English, Punjabi English, Bengali English, Hindi English, alongside several more obscure dialects such as Butler English (a.k.a. Bearer English), Babu English, and Bazaar English and several code-mixed varieties of English. [3] [4] [5] [6]
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 order of the variant pronunciation symbols is the same as in the source. Smaller text (like so) highlights variant pronunciations that are not preferred (only some dictionaries make such a distinction). A comma (,) separates different pronunciation depending on the word or depending on the region.
English: Estuary: yawn [joːn] 'yawn' May be [oʊ] or [o̞ː] instead. Cockney [12] Received Pronunciation [13] Typically transcribed with ɔː . See English phonology: South African [14] General and Broad varieties. Cultivated SAE has a more open vowel. See South African English phonology: General Indian [15] go [ɡoː] 'go' General Pakistani [16]
Many North Indians have an intonation pattern similar to Hiberno-English, which perhaps results from a similar pattern used while speaking Hindi. Indian English speakers do not necessarily make a clear distinction between / ɒ / and / ɔː / unlike Received Pronunciation (RP), i.e. they may have the cot-caught merger, with the target vowel ...
The TRAP – BATH split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in Southern England English (including Received Pronunciation), Australian English, New Zealand English, Indian English, South African English and to a lesser extent in some Welsh English as well as older Northeastern New England English by which the Early Modern English phoneme /æ/ was lengthened in certain environments and ...