This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The set of vowel symbols introduced by Gimson in 1977 into the Jones English Pronouncing Dictionary for the representation of British ...

How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect, maybe ...

Lancaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. University of Reading provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Markle, a native of Los Angeles, appeared ...

Adele and Stormzy epitomise a new wave of British accents in the south of England (Picture: Getty) Accents such as Cockney and Queen’s English have all but disappeared amongst British youth – and been ...

In most languages, including English, vowels that occur next to nasal consonants (m, n, and ng in English) are produced as slightly or entirely nasal. I saw this as phonetically interesting. In my ...