Syllabic l is perhaps the most noticeable, it is a dark /l/. Among the nasal consonants m and n are the most found. They can occur as syllabic, but only as a result of processes of assimilation and elision...
Before concentrating on stress, I would like to establish a difference between segmental and suprasegmental features. Linguists refer to the inventory of vowels and consonants of a language as the segmental features of that language. Suprasegmental features...
In English the difference between stressed and unstressed syllables is much stronger than in some other languages, this is one of the reasons why English spoken by Spanish sounds so flat to an English native speaker...
This study is aimed to serve as the core of a survey on pronu nciation, and in particular on suprasegmental levels regarding stress, rhythm, and intonation. Therefore, all sections which shall be reviewed in this unit are aimed to provide the reader with the following...