Go back a little further though, and you will begin to struggle, partly thanks to what is known as the Great Vowel Shift, or ...

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 ...

English is a funny language in that there is no one to one correspondence between spelling and pronunciation. The spelling of a word doesn’t always tell us how the word is to be pronounced. English ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the seventh of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the seventh of seven short ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the fifth of five long vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the fifth of five long vowel ...

A new computer model has learned to recognize vowel categories from multiple English and Japanese speakers without "knowing" the number of vowels it is looking for or having a complete list of sounds ...

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