Kraut's English phonetic blog

In my blog entry on open approximation - see here - I wrote that academics call sounds which are produced with open stricture either appr...

credit: Thomas Hawk This semester's reading text in my phonetics course finals contained the word 'aristocrat'. Many of my y...

credit: Lupin No, I don't want you to tot up words! Rather, this post is about words starting with the letter sequence <count-...

John Maidment's blog post of the 27th of August on the word-final letter sequence <-ction> inspired me to dig a tiny bit deeper. ...

Besides place of stricture we must take a closer look at the various degrees of stricture . First, there is complete closure . Plosives...

When we describe the individual sound segments of English, we need to take various features into consideration. One of them is the p...

The second feature of my phonetic scheme is called phonation . Phonation describes the laryngeal actions of transporting various types of ...

There are a few English words starting with the letter sequence <kn>: knack knag knap knar knead knee kneel knife knight kn...

This is the first of a series of blog entries dealing with what I call a 'phonetic scheme'. It is used to describe phonetic fea...