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Forum: English Questions Feb 13th, 2014, 01:07 pm
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Re: Schwa sound in main verbs that also function as auxiliary verbs.

Thank you Susan53 : You're pretty good at giving explanation!

I'm a native Spanish speaker from Santo Domingo, Dominicana Republic. I began to study phonetics on june 2013, in my country...
Forum: English Questions Feb 11th, 2014, 10:46 pm
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Schwa sound in main verbs that also function as auxiliary verbs.

Dear members and teachers:

As to my knowledge, Schwa sound does not occur in verbs unless they are auxiliary verbs in a sentence. I would like to know why sometimes the verb TO BE is reduced to...
Forum: English Questions Feb 5th, 2014, 09:36 pm
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Elision of Schwa sound.

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1°) In regard to consonant clusters, the alveolar lateral approximant consonant /l/ and the alveolar approximant consonant /r/ when combined with some other consonants,...
Forum: English Questions Jan 30th, 2014, 08:04 am
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Consonant clusters nt, nd, rt and rd‏. (part II)

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II° - Another similar case in american English (AmE), like in the first part (part I). It is when the consonant cluster RT (an alviolar approximant plus or followed by an...
Forum: English Questions Jan 30th, 2014, 08:01 am
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Consonant clusters nt, nd, rt and rd‏. (part I)

Dear teachers and members:


Alveolar stop and alveolar nasal plus a stop become voiced taps or voiced flaps when they occur between two vowels (intervocalic) of which the second is unstressed. I...
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