Unstressed Syllables Consonants American English Pronunciation

I’ve spent some time talking about

unaccented syllables that contain vowel

sounds I want to take a minute to talk

about

unaccented syllables in which the sound

is a consonant sound the first one are

now a can be the R consonant or really

it can be the ER as in her vowel to me

her or they are the same sound one

functions is a consonant and one

functions as a vowel meaning it’s

usually a little longer so when words

end in ER they take this a sound for the

entire syllable now it will be written

in IPA with a schwa and an R but for me

it goes straight into this sound for

example water water there’s no real

schwa in there father father or daughter

daughter so all of these for me goes

straight into the

sound where the air makes up the whole

syllable the second sound is the dark L

now if you’ve seen my other videos you

know that the dark L which is an L that

comes at the end of a syllable or a word

really is paired with a vowel this vowel

is not written in IPA but it’s similar

to the as in whole where the lips come

away from the mouth a little bit

Oh Oh before the tongue closes up into

the L position words that have this are

words that end in L II for example

buckle o straight from the K to the all

dark L sound bottle o again straight

into that sound ankle o ankle example o

example

the next sound is the M consonant sound

now again this is written with the schwa

and it can be argued if the consonant

before is voiced that you have to slide

through schwa to get to the voiced M but

this is another sound in which I really

feel when it is unaccented that

sometimes it simply takes up the entire

syllable with no vowel for example

fathom straight from that voiced th into

the M fathom awesome awesome for me

again it goes straight from the one

consonant sound into the M sound and the

last sound is related to the M it is the

end mmm Wisconsin hmm hmm cotton caught

mmm dolphin mm-hmm cousin hmm so again

for me these are all words in which the

end takes up really the whole of the

unaccented syllable leaving no room for

a vowel