English phonology | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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English phonology


00:01:22 1 Phonemes
00:02:44 1.1 Consonants
00:06:59 1.1.1 Consonant examples
00:07:15 1.1.2 Sonorants
00:10:07 1.1.3 Obstruents
00:14:43 1.2 Vowels
00:21:39 1.2.1 Allophones of vowels
00:23:05 1.2.2 Unstressed syllables
00:27:34 2 Lexical stress
00:30:27 3 Phonotactics
00:32:01 3.1 Syllable structure
00:36:58 3.1.1 Onset
00:41:43 3.1.2 Nucleus
00:42:10 3.1.3 Coda
00:43:27 3.2 Syllable-level patterns
00:44:47 3.3 Word-level patterns
00:45:41 4 Prosody
00:45:57 4.1 Prosodic stress
00:47:32 4.2 Rhythm
00:48:36 4.3 Intonation
00:50:00 5 History of English pronunciation
00:50:45 6 See also



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SUMMARY
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Like many other languages, English has wide variation in pronunciation, both historically and from dialect to dialect. In general, however, the regional dialects of English share a largely similar (but not identical) phonological system. Among other things, most dialects have vowel reduction in unstressed syllables and a complex set of phonological features that distinguish fortis and lenis consonants (stops, affricates, and fricatives). Most dialects of English preserve the consonant /w/ (spelled ⟨w⟩) and many preserve /θ, ð/ (spelled ⟨th⟩), while most other Germanic languages have shifted them to /v/ and /t, d/: compare English will  (listen) and then  (listen) with German will [vɪl] (listen) ('want') and denn [dɛn] (listen) ('because').
Phonological analysis of English often concentrates on or uses, as a reference point, one or more of the prestige or standard accents, such as Received Pronunciation for England, General American for the United States, and General Australian for Australia. Nevertheless, many other dialects of English are spoken, which have developed independently from these standardized accents, particularly regional dialects. Information about these standardized accents functions only as a limited guide to all of English phonology, which one can later expand upon once one becomes more familiar with some of the many other dialects of English that are spoken.