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American English Pronunciation Podcast

19: -ed ending pronunciation

American English Pronunciation Podcast

Seattle Learning Academy

Language Learning, Self-improvement, Education

4.6543 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2008

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

/d/, /t/, and /ɪd/: become fluent with the three pronunciations for regular past tense verbs in English. Full episode transcripts at www.pronuncian.com/podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English pronunciation podcast.

0:12.9

My name is Mandy, and this is podcast number 19.

0:18.2

Last week we studied the F sound and V sound, and the difficulties many students have between the V sound and W sound, or the V sound and B sound.

0:31.0

As a review, here are a few minimal pairs between the F sound and V sound.

0:38.3

Leif, leave.

0:43.3

Few view.

0:48.3

Refuse, reviews.

0:53.3

Proof

0:56.0

Prove

1:00.0

The week before that

1:02.0

We studied the S-H sound and Z-H sound

1:05.0

Here's the practice sentence for those sounds

1:09.0

Vision is usually measured with special machines.

1:19.6

Today I'm going to talk about the ED ending we add to words when creating the past

1:24.6

participle of regular verbs. This tricky ending has three different pronunciations.

1:31.3

It can sound like a T sound,

1:34.3

T,

1:35.3

like a D sound,

1:38.3

D,

1:39.3

or like the combination of a short I and a D sound.

1:45.1

I talked about how exactly to create the T sound and D sound way back in episode two.

1:54.3

So if you want a full review of that, go back and listen to that episode again.

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