• / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Received Pronunciation (RP) is the accent regarded as the standard and most prestigious...
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  • for example in Received Pronunciation. The following table shows some developments of Middle English /a/ in Received Pronunciation. The word gate, which...
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  • common in southeastern England, ranging from upper- to middle-class Received Pronunciation accents, which together here are abbreviated "RP". However, other...
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  • English often concentrates on prestige or standard accents, such as Received Pronunciation for England, General American for the United States, and General...
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  • or pronunciation system, of standard British English, based in southeastern England, has been known for over a century as Received Pronunciation (RP)...
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  • split that occurs mainly in Southern England English (including Received Pronunciation), Australian English, New Zealand English, Indian English, South...
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  • and transcription delimiters. A pronunciation respelling for English is a notation used to convey the pronunciation of words in the English language...
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  • in the pronunciation of individual words in the lexicon (i.e. phoneme distribution). In this article, transcriptions use Received Pronunciation (RP) to...
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  • approximant [ɹ̠] (a common realization of the /r/ phoneme worldwide, Received Pronunciation and General American included). "Bunched" or "Molar" R: velar bunched...
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  • diction taught in these schools incorporated some features from Received Pronunciation, the most prestigious accent of British English. Consequently, this...
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  • "general" RP. Phoneticians call this accent "Conservative Received Pronunciation". The Queen's pronunciation, however, also changed over the years. The results...
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    consonant clusters.[page needed] General American and Received Pronunciation vary in their pronunciation of historical /r/ after a vowel at the end of a syllable...
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  • within the borough might be considered to be closer to contemporary Received Pronunciation (RP). The term Brummie derives from Brummagem or Bromwichham, which...
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  • spelling pronunciation, for example Grantham. Pronunciation English pronunciation Received Pronunciation Spelling pronunciation Non-native pronunciations of...
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  • and there are no r-colored vowels. In non-rhotic dialects like Received Pronunciation (RP), historic /r/ is elided at the end of a syllable, and if the...
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  • General American English (category Pages including recorded pronunciations)
    General American, especially in opposition to the United Kingdom's Received Pronunciation. Noted phonetician John C. Wells, for instance, claimed in 1982...
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    BATH have the /æ/ phoneme in the United States and /ɑː/ phoneme in Received Pronunciation. In addition, Wells is acknowledged as the source of the term rhotic...
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  • Italian-influenced ecclesiastical pronunciation as used by the Catholic church is still in common use. The Traditional English pronunciation of Latin has all but disappeared...
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  • accents. English dialects differ greatly in their pronunciation of open vowels. In Received Pronunciation, there are four open back vowels, /æ ɑː ɒ ɔː/,...
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    seven different vowel sounds, here represented using the vowels of Received Pronunciation, with effects of ⟨r⟩ ignored and mergers in General American mentioned...
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  • hdl:10037/2102. See Roach, Peter (November 2004). "British English (Received Pronunciation)". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 34 (2): 239–245...
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  • (pronounced with a higher tongue position) than their contemporary Received Pronunciation equivalents. However, a recent short-front vowel chain shift has...
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  • although, the traditional standard has been replaced by a modern neutral pronunciation which always prefers /z/ when intervocalic, except when the intervocalic...
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    speaker's accent, and whether it occurs before or after a vowel. In Received Pronunciation, the alveolar lateral approximant (the sound represented in IPA...
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    finally to the Modern English diphthong /aɪ/ in General American and Received Pronunciation. Because the diphthong /aɪ/ developed from a Middle English long...
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    Open-mid back rounded vowel (category Pages including recorded pronunciations)
    ⟨ɔː⟩) is typically associated with the vowel in "thought", but in Received Pronunciation (standard British English), Australian English, New Zealand English...
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  • loss of any pharyngealization or velarization, /d/. The classical ḍād pronunciation of pharyngealization /ɮˤ/ still occurs in the Mehri language, and the...
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  • Glasgow. The phoneme /r/ may be a postalveolar approximant [ɹ], as in Received Pronunciation or General American, but speakers have also traditionally used for...
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    to become notable for using a regional accent, rather than the Received Pronunciation then considered proper for film actors. At that time his working-class...
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  • are relatively rare in the pronunciation of such words. The following cases can be identified. The geminate pronunciation [ʁʁ] is found in the future...
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