buď víte, nebo nevíte 🙃

/ˈθæŋk ju/

​@@DrJaneSetter /maɪ ˈpleʒə./ I live in Jakarta, Indonesia. We speak Indonesian. Indonesian spelling works just like the phonetic symbols which you teach to us here: one letter represents one speech sound. Although you do not speak and write in Indonesian, you can imagine how simple our Indonesian spelling is.

I'm glad you feel you have benefitted from it. 😀

Thank you!

The short answer is no.

Oh dear! Sentence stress is to do with the rhythm of a sentence. So in e.g. "two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please" we might get | ˈtwo pints of | ˈlager and a | ˈpacket of | ˈcrisps | ˈplease || in the accent I've used here, where it takes roughly the same amount of time to say each group separated by | |. You can try this by clapping / beating the table / clicking your fingers. An extreme example would be the speaking in rap music. Word stress is to do with which syllable in a specific bi- or multi-syllabic word is stressed. There are rules for this in English but they are complex and I'm not going to go into them here.

It's because, in English, we tend to do assimilation of PLACE in this position (here, alveolar to bilabial) rather than VOICE (which is what your question is about) or MANNER. This is because the voiceless consonant at the end of 'light' shortens the preceding vowel; this is a very important acoustic cue for listeners, so to change the voicing would make it (even more) difficult to understand the phrase.

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I'm glad you found it useful. 🙂

I usually refer to what you describe as 'juncture' - and have in fact done some research on it in Hong Kong, British and Singapore Englishes. Juncture is not something I go into a lot on the course these lectures were designed for (it is mentioned in passing), but students do look at it in more detail in my module on acoustic and auditory speech analysis. The materials for that are only available to my students.

Kind of. In the course we refer to it as 'BBC English' (as this is what the textbook we are following uses).

It's not a term I would use in phonetics, but you do see it in pronunciation literature an in exercises to work on fluency. It's basically when a consonant sound at the end of one word kind of rolls into the next word where that begins with a vowel in connected speech - e.g., "an onion" pronounced as "a nonion". So it's definitely to do with external open juncture, yes.