All posts should directly link to academic linguistics articles or other high quality linguistics content, for example: Please read the subreddit rules before posting. While we welcome and encourage respectful debates across perspectives, personal invective is never acceptable, nor is the summary dismissal of other descriptive perspectives. Our tip: Think about where the stress is in the word, instead of saying each syllable.Lin⋅guis⋅tics: the scientific study of human languageĪs a scientific community, we have a broad take on what it means to study language. The ‘unstressed a’ /ə/, as in “America”, “finally”, “surface”, “about” and “was” Our tip: The sound is the same way you say the letter ‘A’ in the alphabet. The ‘long a’ /eɪ/, as in “play”, “make”, “name”, “say”, “came”, “change” and “face” Our tip: The mouth needs to be open, and the tongue relaxed. The ‘short a’ /æ/, as in “cat”, “add”, “began”, “last”, “back”, “after” and “man” So let’s look at the three sounds of the letter ‘a’ that can be tricky: When it comes to the vowel sounds, it may seem like there is no method to the madness. Our tip: try saying the short ‘i’ sound followed by the long ‘i’ sound until you can hear the difference: “ship-sheep”, “live-leave”, “sit-seat”, “hit-heat” and “fit-feat”. You may want to pronounce them as long ‘i’ sounds, as in “leave”, “seat” or “feet”. Like a ‘z’, as in “cause”, “reason”, “realism”, “advise”, “always”, “is” and “was”Ī short ‘i’ sound, as in “ship”, “live”, “sit”, “hit” and “fit”, can be confusing.Like an ‘s’, as in “send”, “simple”, “song”, “system”, “street”, “lost”, “kiss” and “release”.The letter ‘s’ can be also be pronounced in two different ways: Our tip: Normally when ‘c’ is followed by an ‘i’ or ‘e’, it takes the ‘s’ sound. Like a ‘k’, as in “cake”, “come”, “cucumber”, “clean”, “cry”, “scratch”, “act” and “panic”.Like a ‘s’, as in “centre”, “receive”, “cigarette”, “cinema”, “agency” and “notice”.The letter ‘c’ can be pronounced two distinct ways: Consonants with different sounds, such as ‘c’ and ‘z’ Our tip: Practise placing your tongue behind your teeth and blow air out as you say the word.
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