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This is simply called "vowel reduction" in English: акающие or аканье (coming from the verb акать) is "with vowel reduction (of unstressed о)", whilst окающие or оканье (from the verb окать) is "witho …

Liaison phenomena vary a lot in English, even from context to context. A 2003 study which named this particular phenomenon /l/-sandhi said that: Coda (re)syllabification of /l/ is not subtle or flexi …

Both second language phonemes are present as allophones of the same phoneme as the first language (hence the phonemic distinction is novel whilst the phonetics are more-or-less familiar). … Incidentally, while the two sounds [a] and [ʌ~ɐ] are allophones in Russian, in Korean the two are contrastive phonemes (with great ramifications for the grammar too), although of course the phonetics make …

In Korean, such allophonic variation in consonant aspiration is normal. Korean has a three-way contrast in its stops and affricates: "plain/lenis", "tense/fortis", "aspirated". In the Hangeul script, …

Standard Mandarin's monophthongs in the usual five vowel analysis /i, u, y, ə, a/ (Pinyin i, u, ü, e, a) [and even if you include the apical vowel /ɨ / or /ɹ̩~ɻ̩/ or /z̩~ʐ̩/, Pinyin i] mean that /o/ a …

The difference between these four is the topic of the article on yotsugana (四つ仮名). In south Shikoku, they appear to be all different. However, in standard Tokyo Japanese, じ = ぢ and ず = づ. The actual …

For such sociolinguistic characterisations of speech (especially one as culturally-specific as "plumminess"), one has to disentangle all its many possible features. These may vary between different sp …

Vulgar Latin to modern Romance This is very likely well known to you. The emergence of the phoneme /ʒ/ written "j", from /j/. Classical Latin ego /ˈe.ɡo/, probably elided the middle /g/ to form Vul …

Yes, accent modification certainly exists. In the classical bel canto tradition, a specifically prescribed form of pronunciation exclusively for singing is generally required, taught in a very precise …

From a diachronic perspective, this is simply retraction vs advancement. The place of articulation appears as the most "important" part of such a series, and so that's how the phenomenon is portrayed. …

The formation of the "four tone" system of Middle Chinese, which resulted in a historically attested distinction (see the various rime dictionaries compiled in the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties), is me …

English also has so-called unreleased stops, mainly in consonant clusters, e.g. act [æk̚t] vs apt [æp̚t]. The phonemes that have no audible release are certainly contrastive in English here; they are …

This 1999 paper summarises it simply in its second section: Gimson says of /r/ in RP British English that “[a]lthough for perhaps the majority of RP speakers the lip position of /r/ is determined …

As in a previous question on Glossika's "phonics" line, this is IPA-inspired, but not strictly speaking IPA itself. A comment above has provided the answer: it represents what could also be transcribe …

There are two aspects to this: the greater aspiration of /p, t, k/ in Portuguese than in Spanish. the greater lenition of /b, d, g/ in Spanish than in Portuguese. From one 2008 study of 35 South and …