Titlebook: English After RP; Standard British Pro Geoff Lindsey Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 pronunciation.British E

Contort

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49927-2Over recent decades, the qualities of most vowels have shifted in standard British pronunciation. The various changes add up to a large-scale ‘anti- clockwise’ shift in the vowel system. However, the phonetic symbols most widely in use for British English reflect hardly any of these changes.

Asymptomatic

Nasser Arshadi,Thomas H. EyssellDespite the familiar RP symbols /iː/ and /uː/, it’s long been known that these two vowels are diphthongs, behaving like the other closing diphthongs of English. Their diphthongal character is now rather more pronounced than it was in RP. More accurate symbols are [ɪj] and [ʉw].

FADE

AMPLE

生命层

The Law of Business OrganizationsRP used short-lax [ɪ] in many contexts. Today it occurs only before consonants. Elsewhere it’s been replaced with the long-tense FLEECE vowel /iː/ [ɪj], or in closing diphthongs with a glide, [i̯] or [j].

LITHE

笨拙的你

FAWN

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02750-5A number of words have the PALM vowel in the south of England, but the TRAP vowel in the north of England and in North America. The TRAP pronunciations were not acceptable as RP, but today they’re a standard variant.

杠杆支点

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03055-0In RP, the first part of the PRICE diphthong was rather front, while many speakers gave the first part of the MOUTH diphthong a back quality. Today, PRICE begins further back and MOUTH further forward.

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