Does coarticulation only occur with consonants?
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No, coarticulation refers to how we use multiple muscle groupings (lips, tounge, jaw, vocal cords, breath control/diaphram) to create sounds (vowels or consonants). Each grouping must articulate correctly, together, to create the desired sound(s).
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The only "Riddley spelling" I am aware of, is a humor piece called Riddley Walker about what happens with mis-applied phonetic rules in the spelling of English.\n\nhttp://www.ocelotfactory.com/hoban/cowart1.html\n\nhttp://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0253212340/ref=dp_nav_0/701-2150082-0459523?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=916520&s=books
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coming up from behind? Ya know - not same spelling ...but phonetically?\n\nI hear innuendos where other people don't, sort of like when Beavis and Bhead used say "Dude he said 'breast'" but it's more subtle than that and I only giggle to myself, I try not to be caught hearing it different. (unless around friends)\nSorry I couldn't come up with anything else... So little brain at this hour of the morning.
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Yes it has supposedly been proved that cows do. I saw it on the news.\n\n'Cows have regional accents like humans, language specialists have suggested. \nThey decided to examine the issue after dairy farmers noticed their cows had slightly different moos, depending on which herd they came from. \n\nJohn Wells, Professor of Phonetics at the University of London, said regional twangs had been seen before in birds'\n\n\nCheck this BBC article.\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5277090.stm
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Spelling and pronounciation.
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Dude, let me know when you figure this out.  I'm also dying to know.  Is it really so hard to hit an extra two keys when typing words like "are" or "you?"
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i used to not be able to say my 'r's' then one day the school told me i had to go to speech therapy, and i cried bcuz the lady scared me. so my sister taught me how to say them, she made me practice all the time. saying car and rooster. overpronouncing them to start out with helps
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My typing teacher told us that everyone has some combination of letters they will always mess up, for some reason.  For myself, it's always the T and the H ... so my "the" looks like "hte".  It's apparently normal.
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First, the pronunciation "nucular" is considered non-standard by Americans.  You hear about it because some prominent people have used it this way. (Bush-bashers like to act like he came up with it on his own.  They also somehow have failed to notice that Jimmy Carter --who was a nuclear engineer in the Navy!!-- has always said it that way too!  I'm also told Eisenhower said it this way.)\n\nSecond, it is 'stoopid' to assume something about someone' intelligence from their accent, regionalisms, use of 'nonstandard forms' or even outright personal mispronunciations.  There are brilliant folk who 'sound like hicks' to others of us, and people of quite "refined speech" who are dim bulbs.\n\nFinally, this sort of inversion of sounds (the linguistic term is "metathesis") is a fairly natural occurrence in languages of all sorts.  (I used to think this sort of thing was "wrong", until I studied Hebrew and learned about the regular metathesis of certain verb forms [in this case, reflected in the spelling].) There are lots of reasons for this, though perhaps the main one is that the inversion of sounds makes it much easier to pronounce.\n\nA fun example is seen in the way young children often do this, as in saying 'pisghetti' for 'spaghetti', or my own daugher's 'chicken' for 'kitchen', but adults do it too.  Some result in dialectal or nonstandard forms (e.g., saying /ax/ for the word "ask", though this is actually a very old variant, reflected in Chaucer!).  Some are widely accepted, sometimes even THE standard pronunciation (e.g., saying /comf-ter-ble/ for "comfortable".  In fact, if not for this sort of inversion we'd still be saying  'brid' rather than the (corrupted?) form 'bird', and 'thrid' instead of 'third'!  It also accounts for why we say "tornado" though the word is derived from Spanish "tronada".\n\nIn the case of 'nuclear', the ending -ular is much more common in English, and there is a tendency to adopt words to sounds and patterns elsewhere in the language.  But even more basic than that -- 'nucular' allows you to use two "back vowels" /oo/ and /uh/ (i.e., vowel-sounds made in the back of the throat), which is easier than switching to the front vowel /ee/.
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How can you ask that question in all seriousness and yet you capitalize college degree? You'd really better make sure your every one of your ducks are in a row before asking a question like that.\n\nNow, in answer to your question:\n\nUsage Note: The pronunciation (nky-lr), which is generally considered incorrect, is an example of how a familiar phonological pattern can influence an unfamiliar one. The usual pronunciation of the final two syllables of this word is (-kl-r), but this sequence of sounds is rare in English. Much more common is the similar sequence (-ky-lr), which occurs in words like particular, circular, spectacular, and in many scientific words like molecular, ocular, and vascular.
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It might sound like a lisp, but it's actually a different consonant.\n\nSpeakers of Spanish in the Americas use an "s" sound for words that are spelled with "z", but some people from Spain use a sound like the English "th" in the same situation.  Therefore, a Spanish-speaker from Mexico might say "corazon" as "cor-a-son" and a Spanish-speaker from Spain might say "cor-a-thon".  This isn't a lisp; it's just a difference between the dialects of Spanish.
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When used as a vowel. For examply, \n\nHappy (consonant)\nMessy (consonant)\nSynergy (vowel)\nTyrant (vowel)\nAnalysis (Vowel)
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Nobody did it on purpose.  It's just that there are a limited number of sounds in English, and a limited number of ways those sounds can be combined into syllables.  In general, though, nobody gets confused about which one you're trying to use.
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I am in the electronics business an have had dealings with many different cultures and languages.  The one thing I have been surprised with is how many people to whom English is a second( or third) language can have such great difficulty pronouncing words in English can perfectly pronoun slang and curse words.  For example, many Koreans I know cannot pronounce F's and P's correctly but can say Mother *ucker perfectly.  Interesting.
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i looked and saw something called developmental apraxia of speech\n\nhttp://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/apraxia.asp
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u know that upside down e in phonetics?\nits called a shwa!
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You're referring to the pronounciation of the letters "c" (before the vowels "e" and "i") and "z". Spanish-speaking Spaniards push the tip of their tongues against the back of the upper front teeth. The sound produced is similar to "th" in "Rosenthal". \n\nBut that is not the only difference in pronounciation with Spanish as spoken in other countries:\n\nThey also pronounce the "s" as a soft "ssssh". \n\nThe pronounciation of the letter "j" is also different. They pronounce it longer and stronger. "Mi parejjjja" \n\nThey also use compound verbs more frequently. A common example is the use of the ante-presente, instead of the pasado (past) of the indicative mood for describing recent actions in the past. For example: While in Mexico we say "Me caí"  ("I've fallen"), Spanish speakers in Spain say "Me he caído".\n\nAnother difference is the speed. Spaniards generally speak faster than people in Latin America.