Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology 2

[@princeicio]

6:42 the words ''either'' and ''ether'' are not transcribed correctly. The schwa sound is missing. There should be a schwa sound before the /r/ sound in both words.

[@DillandShaj]

I have a test tomorrow and your videos are amazing! Thank you very much!

[@linna05sundy]

+DillandShaj can i have the question about your test please ?

[@princeicio]

Deletion is also known as elision which is the process of leaving out a sound segment in the pronunciation of a word. e.g. instead of saying ''friendship'' people often tend to drop the ''d'' sound so it becomes ''frienship'', esp in everyday English.

[@jatinmulani5687]

Thanks for sharing

[@SosutKhalily]

My son is also a king of metathesis. No matter how hard you try to trick him to say it right, he just wont correct it!

[@mohandamokraneabbou2959]

Great video, thank you!

[@englishwithkayzee2805]

Very informative... The Asian languages don't have the aspirated allophones. Urdu, Khowar and pushto speakers don't aspirate the unvoiced consonants like /p/ /t/ and /k/ even when they are talking in English.

[@ulfr-gunnarsson]

No need to extend it over ALL Asian languages. There's a difference between /pʰ/ and /p/ in, say, Chinese (which is an Asian language), and other Asian do have that difference (apart from Indo-European languages you've mentioned (Hindi/Urdu, Pushto and Khowar)).

[@nHans]

​@@ulfr-gunnarsson Hindi certainly distinguishes between aspirated and unaspirated plosives. They're separate phonemes; they're _not_ allophones of each other. In fact, Hindi's script Devanagari has separate consonants for aspirated and unaspirated plosives-something that even English doesn't have. Some examples of Hindi words showing this distinction: - [kaɽaː] _bracelet_ v [kʰaɽaː] _standing_ - [gɐr] contraction of _"agar,"_ meaning _if_ v [gʱɐr] _house_ - [cɐl] _walk_ v [cʰɐl] _trickery_ - [ɟɐn] _people_ v [ɟʱɐn] _jingle; sound of bells_ - [ʈok] _rebuke_ v [ʈʰok] _to hammer_ - [ɖaːl] _put_ v [ɖʱaːl] _shield_ - [t̪oɽaː] _broke_ v [t̪ʰoɽaː] _a little_ - [d̪oː] _two_ & _give_ v [d̪ʱoː] _wash_ - [pɐl] _moment_ v [pʰɐl] _fruit_ - [baːg] _garden_ v [bʱaːg] _run_ IMO, the OP clearly meant "some" Asian languages-the three that they mentioned. They hadn't mentioned Hindi. But since you did, I thought I'd set the record straight. It's certainly possible that Urdu-like Hindi-also distinguishes between aspirated and unaspirated plosives. But I'm not formally trained in Urdu, so I won't assert it with any degree of certainty. However, like the OP alluded, native Hindi speakers also don't aspirate plosives when speaking English. The reason is not because they cannot-clearly they can, as the examples show. Rather, they are _taught_ to speak that way. ESL textbooks for Hindi speakers contain pronunciation help in Devanagari. And Devanagari does have both aspirated and unaspirated consonants. Yet, for some peculiar unexplained reason, the publishers traditionally use unaspirated consonants even when the proper English pronunciation requires aspiration.