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  2. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    See below for combinations of vowel letters and r s: word-final - s morpheme after a fortis sound /s/ pets, shops: word-final - s morpheme after a lenis sound /z/ beds, magazines: between vowels /z/ phrases, prison, pleasing /s/ /ʒ/ bases, bison, leasing vision, closure elsewhere /s/ song, ask, misled /z/ /ʃ/ ∅: is, lens, raspberry sugar ...

  3. Intervocalic consonant - Wikipedia

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    In phonetics and phonology, an intervocalic consonant is a consonant that occurs between two vowels. [1]: 158 Intervocalic consonants are often associated with lenition, a phonetic process that causes consonants to weaken and eventually disappear entirely.

  4. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...

  5. Voiceless alveolar fricative - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Its sound is between [s] and . The voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative [θ̠] or [θ͇], using the alveolar diacritic from the Extended IPA, [1] is similar to the th in English thin. It occurs in Icelandic as well as an intervocalic and word-final allophone of English /t/ in dialects such as Hiberno-English and Scouse.

  6. Linking and intrusive R - Wikipedia

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    Linking R and intrusive R are sandhi phenomena [1] where a rhotic consonant is pronounced between two consecutive vowels with the purpose of avoiding a hiatus, that would otherwise occur in the expressions, such as tuner amp, although in isolation tuner is pronounced the same as tuna /ˈtjuːnə/ (or /ˈtuːnə/) in non-rhotic varieties of English.

  7. English words without vowels - Wikipedia

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    Upload file; Search. Search. Appearance. ... 1.2 Alphabetical list of words without the main vowels and also excluding Y. ... Download as PDF; Printable version;

  8. Consonant voicing and devoicing - Wikipedia

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    Most commonly, the change is a result of sound assimilation with an adjacent sound of opposite voicing, but it can also occur word-finally or in contact with a specific vowel. For example, the English suffix -s is pronounced [s] when it follows a voiceless phoneme ( cats ), and [z] when it follows a voiced phoneme ( dogs ). [ 1 ]

  9. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Vowels pronounced with the tongue lowered are at the bottom, and vowels pronounced with the tongue raised are at the top. For example, [ɑ] (the first vowel in father) is at the bottom because the tongue is lowered in this position. [i] (the vowel in "meet") is at the top because the sound is said with the tongue raised to the roof of the mouth.