How to pronounce bringing correctly?

[LiuJing]

My roommate and I are discussing the pronunciation of 'bringing'.

I prefer to pronounce it as bring-ning, and his way is bring-ing.

My logic is based on ringing being said as ring-ning, and his is singing is sing-ing, not sing-ning.

Both of us are confused. Thank you in advance.

[xpert]

The correct pronunciation is /ˈbrɪŋ ɪŋ/. Notice that [ng] is nasalized.

Source: Longman Pronunciation Dictionary

[carol.j]

My roommate and I are discussing the pronunciation of 'bringing'.

I prefer to pronounce it as bring-ning, and his way is bring-ing.

My logic is based on ringing being said as ring-ning, and his is singing is sing-ing, not sing-ning.

Both of us are confused. Thank you in advance.

Hi LiuJing,

The correct pronunciation for both ringing and singing is 'ring-ing' and 'sing-ing' respectively. There is no 'n' sound after ring or sing.

Hope this helps.

[Raymott]

Hi LiuJing,

The correct pronunciation for both ringing and singing is 'ring-ing' and 'sing-ing' respectively. There is no 'n' sound after ring or sing.

Hope this helps.

I agree. In fact, there is no /n/ sound at all in these words, as illustrated in the above phonetic transcription.
/n/ is pronounced with the tongue on the alveolar ridge. The tongue goes nowhere near here when saying 'bringing'.

[2006]

I agree. In fact, there is no /n/ sound at all in these words, as illustrated in the above phonetic transcription.
/n/ is pronounced with the tongue on the alveolar ridge. The tongue goes nowhere near here when saying 'bringing'.

There are n sounds in "ringing" and "singing", at least in North American English. Otherwise the pronunciations would be 'rigig' and 'sigig'.

[Barb_D]

The n in the ng combo is not the same as plain n, though.

It's neither brigging nor brinning.

And it's certainly not bring-ning.

[Raymott]

There are n sounds in "ringing" and "singing", at least in North American English. Otherwise the pronunciations would be 'rigig' and 'sigig'.

/ ŋ/ is a velar nasal. It's a separate phonetic sound from /n/, and does not contain an alveolar nasal (/n/). 'ringing' has two / ŋ/, two 'I' and an /r/, as in the transciption that xpert has posted. If you look closely, you'll see there is no /n/. In fact, if you say /n/ several times, and then say "ringing', you'll see that /n/ doesn't enter into it. Nor, as Barb rightly says, does /g/.
I'm trying to say an /n/ sound with 'ringing', but it's impossible.
If you can do it, can you post a sound file?

[2006]

/ ŋ/ is a velar nasal. It's a separate phonetic sound from /n/, and does not contain an alveolar nasal (/n/). 'ringing' has two / ŋ/, two 'I' and an /r/, as in the transciption that xpert has posted. If you look closely, you'll see there is no /n/. In fact, if you say /n/ several times, and then say "ringing', you'll see that /n/ doesn't enter into it.
No one is saying that the n sound in those words is the same as what one hears when the alphabet n is recited.
Nor, as Barb rightly says, does /g/. I don't know that Barb said that.
Again, the 'ng' sound is very different from that of isolated n and g sounds said in sequence. But there are variants of n and g sounds in those words.

2006

[Raymott]

2006

Well, if you want to call /θ/ and /ð/ variants of /t/, and /ʃ/ a variant of /s/, I can see your point. But I disagree.
These are not allophones: they are not variants of the same sound. If you replaced /ŋ/ with /n/ or /ng/ you would often get a different word. They are different phonemes.

'Finger' and 'linger' have /g/ sounds in them, but 'singer' and springer don't.

So there is also no /t/ sound in ‘both’ or ‘other’ and there’s no /s/ sound in “shot” (as they are normally pronounced).