Is the ʊ sound pronounced with lip rounding? The [ɯ] sound, though being a close-back vowel, is always unrounded So it sounds very strange to me at first, since [ʊ] is a near-back-near-close vowel, and I thought it is supposed to be rounded
What is the difference between ʊ and ʌ in British English? To me the ʌ is a more short, low front (unrounded?) vowel, but the vowel ʊ which sounds like "uh" is a short, high back (rounded?) vowel but this difference is only minor that you could probably swap each sound when speaking and get away with it
single word requests - Whats the opposite of a round number . . . In absolute terms, (see above) one could call such a number a sharp number n A precise or unrounded number … Round numbers have a salient conceptual basis (e g , 10 years are a decade) Sharp numbers do not (e g , 7 years) Estimates tend to be expressed with round numbers An experiment is described that examines whether consumers make the false assumption that claims using sharp numbers
Is ɜː realized as schwa [ə] in British English? In his 1982 book Accents of English, John Wells (a very highly respected former professor of phonetics at University College London) says that ɜː is "a relatively long unrounded mid central vocoid, [əː] " See this blog entry for the quote So some experts consider them to be the same vowel sound
british english - English Language Usage Stack Exchange It is a tense vowel, sometimes called the close front unrounded vowel The vowel in sit sɪt is the corresponding lax vowel, the one that we call the KIT vowel, or sometimes the near-close near-front unrounded vowel
pronunciation - Am I thinking right about Front, Near-Front . . . Vowels along the rightmost (slanted) line are front vowels Those along the middle (also slanted) line are central vowels Anything between them is a near-front vowel The same principle works for near-back vowels - they are those between the central and the back lines So I and Y are near-front, and ɯ̽ and ʊ are near-back This is because the shape of our mouth-cavity is not rectangular
Is [ʌ] a back vowel or a central vowel in GA English? The IPA symbol ʌ name is "open-mid back unrounded vowel" and the IPA vowel trapezoid shows it as the unrounded version of ɔ , but its sound in English sounds very different from [ɔ] to me It so