Gimson's pronunciation of english part 12. Bài tập luyện ngữ pháp tiếng anh cho mọi người, đây là tài liệu hay và hữu ích có thể giúp các bạn có thể nắm vững được các ngữ pháp tiếng anh cụ thể. | 132 Tbe Soundt of Englilh Spellings of 3 excluding function words i Examples TF LF a woman about affect 35 30 0 oblige 19 24 e gentlemen 13 13 er re mother waiter grocer batter mitre 15 12 I possible u suppose ar or our ure particular doctor razor colour figure ou famous Note a in weak forms . a an and but for the to see 2 Description has a very high frequency of occurrence in unaccented syllables. Its quality is that of a central vowel with neutral lip position having in non-final positions a tongue-raising between open-mid and close-mid . in clone fatigue decorative afterwards etc. In the vicinity of the alveolar consonants t d n s z the tongue may be raised to the close-mid position around the velar consonants k g i the tongue may be slightly more raised and retracted . in long ago lorj - gao . In final positions . in mother doctor over p c-Hire China the vowel may be articulated in the open-mid central position q . The acoustic formants of a arc therefore likely to be similar to those for 3 or a according to the situation. In Refined RP final 0 will be below open-mid e and may even approach a so that the two vowels in father become similar in quality Fig. 23 . Figure 23 Variants of si. The Engluh Voweh 133 Regional variants Many examples of a derive from sequences of vowel r usually shown in the spelling . waiter doctor colour figure - In rhotic i lects this original ZrZ may be reflected in r-colourlng of the schwa as in r neral American and south-west England or may correspond to sequences of a Ml vowel usually short plus ZrZ as in Scottish English. In the north of England u umber of prefixes which have ZaZ in RP have a full vowel . con- ad- sub- as n- vK-We koi klu d advance od vams substantial Ab staenJi l . Sources of a As the large variety of spellings shows Za schwa represents the reduced unaccented form of any vowel or diphthong. The process of reducing full vowels began In OE in which the letters c l arc often confused in .
