vowelcountries

Vowel Countries Demo for USC Phonetics Ling 580
D. Byrd

American, British, Australian,
& Canadian English Vowel Examples

American English vowels from Peter Ladefoged's book Vowels and Consonants

Note that we won't be using the length symbol in our transcription.

Click to hear General American English vowels

Britich English vowels from Peter Ladefoged's book Vowels and Consonants

Note that we won't be using the length symbol in our transcription.

Click to hear BBC English Vowels

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Some Canadian English vowels from Taylor Roberts's web site

Canadian raising is a phonological process characteristic of several varieties of Canadian English, in which the onsets of the diphthongs /aj/ and /aw/ raise to mid vowels when they precede voiceless obstruents.
http://www.yorku.ca/twainweb/troberts/raising.html

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