British English IPA sounds

[teachenglish1]

I am looking for a good set of British English IPA sounds. The few I have found aren't very clear. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[BobK]

I am looking for a good set of British English IPA sounds. The few I have found aren't very clear. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

There are several on the web, but these may be among the ones you have found unclear. There's a very good one (with example words, rather than disembodied sounds) on the CD-ROM that comes with New Cutting Edge (Upper-Int) (ISBN 1-405-85230-5).

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[teachenglish1]

Thanks. I will try to get hold of that cd-rom, although I don't want the book.

Do you know if where I can just purchase the cd-rom?

[sdear]

what is APA?

[RonBee]

what is IPA?

I'm guessing the P stands for pronunciation.

[teachenglish1]

The IPA is the International Phonetic Alphabet. I am looking for pronunciation of all the British English sounds so that my student can listen and see the coressponding IPA symbol.

[BobK]

Thanks. I will try to get hold of that cd-rom, although I don't want the book.

Do you know if where I can just purchase the cd-rom?

Amazon gives these details for the CD-ROM alone:

# CD-ROM: 1 pages
# Publisher: Pearson Longman (13 Mar 2007)
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 1405851864
# ISBN-13: 978-1405851862

They also say 'currently unavailable'.

b

PS They also omit the diphthong /ʊə/; I don't know how you feel about this. I know some native speakers pronounce 'poor' to rhyme with 'pore', but many of us don't. This makes the Cutting Edge version of English phonemes number only 43. I suspect this is an 'efficiency' that is in the process of happening; I (and many other native speakers) pronounce 'poor' /pʊə/ but 'door' /dɔ:/ (and I've heard people pronouncing both with either vowel - some say /pʊə/ and /dʊə/, others say /pɔ:/ and /dɔ:/. Perhaps in years to come this will be known as part of the Little Vowel Shift.

[teachenglish1]

Thank you very much for the information, BobK.

I will keep an eye on the CD at Amazon.

Also, the omission of that diphthong isn't that bad. I pronounce 'poor' the same way as 'pore'.

That Little Vowel Shift sounds interesting. I'll remember where I heard about it first!

Thanks!

[Cold Killer]

thanks ! ! !

[Frank Antonson]

When I studied linguistics in college and ran into the IPA, I despaired.
Now, in retrospect, I think it is unduly complicated for the layman.
Why would you worry? If you sound slightly British (or American), just consider it "style", or else your "linguistic passport", id, fingerprint.
Linguist Farmer