• / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Received Pronunciation (RP) is the accent of British English regarded as the standard one...
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  • English often concentrates on prestige or standard accents, such as Received Pronunciation for England, General American for the United States, and General...
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  • split that occurs mainly in Southern England English (including Received Pronunciation), Australian English, New Zealand English, Indian English, South...
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  • for example in Received Pronunciation. The following table shows some developments of Middle English /a/ in Received Pronunciation. The word gate, which...
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  • and transcription delimiters. A pronunciation respelling for English is a notation used to convey the pronunciation of words in the English language...
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  • common in southeastern England, ranging from upper- to middle-class Received Pronunciation accents, which together here are abbreviated "RP". However, other...
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  • in the pronunciation of individual words in the lexicon (i.e. phoneme distribution). In this article, transcriptions use Received Pronunciation (RP) to...
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  • or pronunciation system, of standard British English, based in southeastern England, has been known for over a century as Received Pronunciation (RP)...
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  • approximant [ɹ̠] (a common realization of the /r/ phoneme worldwide, Received Pronunciation and General American included). "Bunched" or "Molar" R: velar bunched...
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  • with promoting any accent, despite the popular association between Received Pronunciation and the BBC. Its predecessor was the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken...
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  • Northeastern elite accent (category Pages including recorded pronunciations)
    share significant features with Eastern New England English and Received Pronunciation (RP), the standard British accent. The late 19th century first produced...
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    consonant clusters.[page needed] General American and Received Pronunciation vary in their pronunciation of historical /r/ after a vowel at the end of a syllable...
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  • and there are no r-colored vowels. In non-rhotic dialects like Received Pronunciation (RP), historic /r/ is elided at the end of a syllable, and if the...
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  • "general" RP. Phoneticians call this accent "Conservative Received Pronunciation". The Queen's pronunciation, however, also changed over the years. The results...
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    A (category Pages including recorded pronunciations)
    seven different vowel sounds, here represented using the vowels of Received Pronunciation, with effects of ⟨r⟩ ignored and mergers in General American mentioned...
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  • are relatively rare in the pronunciation of such words. The following cases can be identified. The geminate pronunciation [ʁʁ] is found in the future...
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  • Estuary English is an intermediate accent between Cockney and Received Pronunciation, also widely spoken in and around London, as well as in wider South...
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  • accents. English dialects differ greatly in their pronunciation of open vowels. In Received Pronunciation, there are four open back vowels, /æ ɑː ɒ ɔː/,...
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  • General American English (category Pages including recorded pronunciations)
    General American, especially in opposition to the United Kingdom's Received Pronunciation. Noted phonetician John C. Wells, for instance, claimed in 1982...
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  • spelling pronunciation, for example Grantham. Pronunciation English pronunciation Received Pronunciation Spelling pronunciation Non-native pronunciations of...
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    BATH have the /æ/ phoneme in the United States and /ɑː/ phoneme in Received Pronunciation. In addition, Wells is acknowledged as the source of the term rhotic...
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  • is Coruscanti. Many native citizens of Coruscant speak with the Received Pronunciation accent (known in-universe as Coruscanti). In the Star Wars universe...
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    L (category Pages including recorded pronunciations)
    speaker's accent, and whether it occurs before or after a vowel. In Received Pronunciation, the alveolar lateral approximant (the sound represented in IPA...
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  • the predominant pronunciation of Literary Arabic outside the Arab world, the pronunciation used in Qur'an recitation and the pronunciation mostly used in...
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    Great Vowel Shift (category Pages including recorded pronunciations)
    main difference between the pronunciation of Middle English in the year 1400 and Modern English (Received Pronunciation) is in the value of the long...
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  • Italian-influenced ecclesiastical pronunciation as used by the Catholic church is still in common use. The Traditional English pronunciation of Latin has all but disappeared...
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  • within the borough might be considered to be closer to contemporary Received Pronunciation (RP). The term Brummie derives from Brummagem or Bromwichham, which...
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    the "Cultivated" variety closely approximates England's standard Received Pronunciation and is associated with the upper class; the "General" variety is...
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    and the careful upper-class standard accent of Southern England, Received Pronunciation (RP), popular in the 20th century with upper-middle- and upper-class...
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    diphthongs, mostly correspond to the tense vowels used in analyses of Received Pronunciation (RP) as well as its centring diphthongs. The short vowels, consisting...
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