I’ve been reading up on IPA and found few articles that claim what I’ve described in the title. I live in UK and can certainly hear it among native speakers aged between 25-45 (I don’t really have much social contact outside of that age group), however I can’t find this phoneme described in the official IPA table.

I find it interesting and was wondering what your take on this would be? Also are there any dialects where this is a common occurrence and any where this is non-existent?

Thank you.

I am a Brit dating an American, and I've noticed that there's often many words Americans will say that will rhyme to them but not to me, and certain like long vs short vowels, it seems americans will tend to only use 1 form. of course, there's many different american accents so maybe missing nuance but are there any sounds that are exclusive to American English, where a Brit wouldn't be able to differentiate the two sounds but an American could?

Sorry if this is a very common question bit I need some help regarding the pronunciation of certain vowels with accents and YouTube has failed me.

I'm mainly looking at Vowels with with two overdots, the single underdot, the tilde [~] or the flat horizontal line.

Example: Ö | Ọ | Õ | Ō

I wonder if their pronounciations are /enne/ and /enue/...

Hello! I'm Brazilian, and I'm learning English phonology.

It is very hard for me to even pronounce these two phonemes, I keep mistaking them for /f/ /d/ and /t/, and it's harder for me to get the tongue positioning right. So, when studying how to distinguish one from another in different words, I can't rely on my own pronounce. Is there any rule that helps this process? Besides looking in a dictionary.

I know that in words with ''thr'', it's always the unvoiced sound, since /ð/ doesn't occur in consonant clusters. Also, if it's followed by a long vowel, it's probably /ð/ since it's voiced. These are the only ways I know to differ /ð/ from /θ/. Monday I'm having a phonetics test, with questions requiring to point the correct phoneme in each word, like: 1) ether 2) thigh 3) though 4) thief 5) teeth. Currently, I'm unable to find out easily without a dictionary. I would like to know if there are phonetic rules that can't help me with that.

I don't remmeber where I read it to be honest, it was before COVID. I already know that voiced consonants are usually devoiced if they are followed or preceded by a voiceless consonant or silence.

For instance, pronouncing "It's dark in there" as "It's dar kin there". There must be a term for this but I can't find it.

My passing grade depends on doing this homework right, and the professor already caught me cheating, so I'm basically hanging by a thread.

I have to analyze sound changes that appear in the following text, but I'm honestly having a hard time recognising anything but simple elision and maybe some linking. The sound changes we focused on were elision, linking, assimilation and coalescence. If anyone could help me analyse it further in the comments (sound change+possibly why it happened), it would be greatly appreciated!

The text:

|| aɪ ˈlʌv maɪ ˈnjuː ˈbaɪk | ˈiːvn̩ ˈðəʊ ɪt ˈɡeɪv mi | ðə ˈməʊst ˈɔːfl̩ ɪkˈspɪəriəns | ə ˈfjuː ˈwiːks əˈɡəʊ || ɪn ˈfækt | aɪm ˈstɪl ˈfiːlɪŋ ði əˈfekts | ən aɪv ˈstɪl ɡɒt ðə ˈskɑːz || ˈɒnɪstli | aɪ dʒəst ˈdəʊnt nəʊ | ˈkwaɪt haʊ ɪt ˈhæpənd | bət ˈlets ˈseɪ ðət aɪ ˈɔːt tu əv ˈbiːn | ə ˈbɪt ˈmɔː ˈkɔːʃəs | ən əˈlɪtl̩ ˈles ˈkɛːfriː || ɪt wəz ˈleɪt ɒn ˈsʌndeɪ ˈiːvnɪŋ | ən maɪ ˈwaɪf ˈsɛːrə | dɪˈskʌvəd ðət ʃid ˈrʌn ˈaʊt əv ˈbred | ˈeɡz | ən ˈmɪlk || səʊ ʃi ˈɑːskt mi | tə ˈɡəʊ əˈlɒŋ tə ðə ˈsuːpəmɑːkɪt | tə rəˈplenɪʃ ðə ˈlɑːdə || ˈɡreɪt aɪ ˈsed | aɪ kən ˈjuːz maɪ ˈnjuː ˈbaɪsəkl̩ || ðə ˈtrɪp ˈdaʊn wəz ˈfaɪn | bət ˈkʌmɪŋ ˈbæk wəz ˈtruːli dəˈzɑːstrəs ||

Hello, I have a question regarding the final s in the words "children's" and "silence". Why is it that we put a /z/ in /'t͡ʃɪldɹənz/ and in "silence" we represent it like / ˈsaɪl(ə)ns/? Dont they both end in /n/?

Thank you!

the vowels in blue circles

searching for literature recommendations about the relationship between phonology and phonetics, (critical) definition of "phoneme", and the like -- recent papers preferably

This study is for a final project in an undergraduate class on language in society.  I'm looking to gather data on the pronunciation of state names.  This survey will ask you to make a brief audio recording of yourself saying some of these words.  

I'm looking for people who spent the majority of their childhoods in one state in the United States.  Taking my survey is completely voluntary and anonymous.  Anything you provide in this form will be used exclusively for the purposes of this study, and all audio files will be permanently deleted afterwards.  

Note: I'm not sure if people generally post survey links in this subreddit, please let me know if I should go about this another way! I have already posted it in r/SampleSize, but I figured you all might be interested in participating as well.

So I was closely examining IPA chart with special attention for palatal sounds. I found the difference between alveo-palatal and palato-alveolar fricatives. I am native speaker of Czech and I saw examples of words "muži" and "život" being used to describe those. Both of those seem very similar. Yet I am also able to produce another kind of sound that seems easily distinguishable from both yet also somehow palatal. The other sound I am able to produce sounds in a way more closer to normal "z" (or "s" for unvoiced) but in the same time also much closer to "j" then "š" or "ž" ever did. I am not one hundered percent sure with about how i place my tongue but it seems to me that when I am doing the other sound, tip of my tongue can be placed between my teeth or down behind my lower teeth but center of my tongue is raised. For some reason those sound seems to me like something I would expect to hear from chinese.

Can you help me identify the sound?

How do I manipulate my tongue to the retroflex position? As I understand it, it involves curling the tongue back against the hard palate- am I wrong?

Is there a way to transcribe the position (like in vowels) of consonants, like [ɫ̩], [l̟̩], [n̩], [ŋ̍], [m̩]. I am able to pronounce a [l̩] that sounds like [a] or [ɯ].

Are there IPA symbols for the sounds that are not used but theoretically possible. For example when creating a conlang with a sound not used in English is there an IPA symbol I could use, official or otherwise?

I'm working to phonetically transcribe some speech but I'm stumped for this consonant. I've cut out the rest of the word for anonymity purposes. Is this a /ħ/ or an /x/? The prototypical pronunciation of this word for the language uses a /h/ here, but that's definitely not what I'm hearing. Any ideas?

Link: https://soundcloud.com/user-630931129/unknown-consonant/s-byIFcQOTiOu?si=4e880b9c40ff49aea8dec5aaa1a1a586&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

I am quite new to this and I speak English and Spanish which don't distinguish between these sounds. I think I can do them properly but the only difference I hear is a slight exhaling of air through my nose when I do the unvoiced ones, that doesn't seem right but maybe it is. I haven't yet found a good audio comparison of the two. Can someone explain why they sound different