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- English, known in linguistics simply as General American (abbreviated GA or GenAm), is the umbrella accent of American English spoken by a majority of Americans...
- which he calls RP and GenAm. "RP" refers to Received Pronunciation, the traditionally prestigious accent in England. "GenAm" refers to an accent of...
- difference when speakers without the merger, such as General American (GenAm) and Inland Northern American English, pronounce the vowels. The merger...
- FLEECE and FACE are narrow diphthongs [ɪi, ee̝]. CHOICE is also within GenAm norm: [ɔ̟ɪ]. The PRICE vowel alone undergoes Canadian raising to [ɜɪ] before...
- Gold Certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. Originally known as the GenAm Building, 700 Market was designed in the 1970s by architect Philip Johnson...
- semi-vowels: [ja] as in [ŋijaɓɛːɠa] ngiyabeka (I am placing it) [wa] as in [ŋiːwa] ngiwa (I fall/I am falling) Indonesian has four diphthongs which may...
- consecutive FLEECE vowels: /ˈbʊli.iŋ/ bull-ee-eeng or /ˈbʊli.in/ bull-ee-een (cf. GenAm /ˈbʊli.ɪŋ/, with FLEECE followed by KIT). As all vowels preceding /ŋ/ are...
- The modern RP vowel /e/ is pronounced very similar to the corresponding GenAm phoneme /ɛ/. The difference between them is simply a matter of transcription...
- Guinea proposal. However, when proto-Nimboran pronouns are reconstructed (*genam "I" and kom or komot "thou"), they have little resemblance to the proto-TNG...
- made explicit, ⟨faather⟩ is likely spelt with a double ⟨a⟩ as both RP and GenAm pronounce it with /ɑ(ː)/, in comparison to ⟨rather⟩, which is pronounced...