User talk:RoachPeter/sandbox

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that vowel reduction is a phonemic contrast in English, and that this applies to most vowels. That is, that we either have a set of full and a set of reduced vowels, or that vowel reduction is a suprasegmental feature analogous to stress. I don't see a distinction between schwa and the others in this regard. So, we might have a correspondence s.t. like this:

full	reduced
iː eɪ	i
uː	u
oʊ ʊ	ɵ
ɪ ɛ æ	ᵻ
ʌ ɒ ɑː	ə
ɔː aʊ aɪ ɔɪ	NA

(Since I don't make all these distinctions, I'm half guessing here. There's also the issue of barred-ɪ being used both for schwi and for schwa~ɪ alternation.)

I wonder therefore why we'd want to say that schwa is phonemic but other reduced vowels are not. — kwami (talk) 20:30, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sound file markup

There are several ways to incorporate sound files.

For example you can use the template {{Audio-IPA}} if you wish to provide “clickable” phonetic transcription. The source code

{{Audio-IPA|Recording of speaker of British English (Received Pronunciation).ogg|[ˌðɪs ɪz ˌaɪ piˑ ˈeɪ]|lang=en-GB|help=no}}

will yield this:

[ˌðɪs ɪz ˌaɪ piˑ ˈeɪ]^ⓘ

Several other templates such as {{Audio-nohelp}} and {{Audio}} work in a similar way.

There are also more general ways to include sound files, usually without transcription; cf. this help page. Writing

[[File:Recording of speaker of British English (Received Pronunciation).ogg|thumb|center|Specimen of Received Pronunciation]]

displays as

Specimen of Received Pronunciation

while

{{listen|filename=Recording of speaker of British English (Received Pronunciation).ogg|pos=left|title=Specimen of Received Pronunciation|description=This specimen of Received Pronunciation was first published in the ''Journal of the International Phonetic Association'' in...}}

shows up as

—LiliCharlie (talk) 13:55, 8 December 2013 (UTC) —LiliCharlie (talk) 14:13, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cambridge.dictionaries https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cambridge.dictionaries