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 ...

Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol. 33, No. 1 (June 2003), pp. 1-16 (16 pages) The vowels /i/ and /I/ are not contrastive before /r/ in American English, and the phonetics ...

This is the second of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the second of eight other consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore ...

What is a digraph? Well, there are plenty of them in English and it’s where two ‘written letters’ represent one phonetic sound. For example, in the word ‘phonetic’. the first two letters <ph> are ...