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A speech sound disorder (SSD) is a speech disorder affecting the ability to pronounce speech sounds, which includes speech articulation disorders and phonemic disorders, the latter referring to some sounds not being produced or used correctly. The term "protracted phonological development" is sometimes preferred when describing children's ...
This leads to pronouncing smörgåsbord (with initial in Swedish) as / ˈ ʃ m ɔːr ɡ ə s ˌ b ɔːr d /, parmesan (from French [paʁməzɑ̃]) as / ˈ p ɑː r m ə ˌ ʒ ɑː n / (the cheese itself is Italian, and this pronunciation may also have been influenced by the Italian word for the cheese, parmigiano, which has a postalveolar ...
The Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary claims that t-glottalization is now most common in London, Leeds, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. [ 7 ] Uniquely for English in the West Indies, Barbadian English uses a glottal allophone for /t/, and also less frequently for /k/ and /p/.
The alveolar consonants /t, d, n, s, z, l/ are articulated with the blade of the tongue, rather than the tip as in English. [26] Pronunciation of vowels. Speakers confuse between /æ/ and /ɛ/, so that man and men are both pronounced as the latter. [29] Speakers confuse between /uː/ and /ʊ/, so that pool and pull are both pronounced with [u ...
In General American, yod-dropping is found not only in the above environments but also after /t/, /d/ and /n/ (for example, tune /ˈtuːn/, dew /ˈduː/, and new /ˈnuː/). The lack of yod-dropping in those contexts has occasionally been held to be a shibboleth distinguishing Canadians from Americans.
It turns out there is a correct way to say Kelce — but the brothers don’t care how people say it. Technically, according to their father Ed Kelce, it is pronounced as one syllable: “Kels.”
The final night of the Democratic National Convention included a tutorial on pronouncing Kamala Harris' name — featuring none other than the candidate's great nieces. The actress Kerry ...
In many dialects, /r/ occurs only before a vowel; if you speak such a dialect, simply ignore /r/ in the pronunciation guides where you would not pronounce it, as in cart /kɑːrt/. In other dialects, /j/ ( y es) cannot occur after /t, d, n/ , etc., within the same syllable; if you speak such a dialect, then ignore the /j/ in transcriptions such ...