The Iraqi learners' production of RP clipped vowel

Abstract EN

Within connected speech, RP speakers tend to shorten stressed long vowels end diphthongs in pre.

Forties consonants in the same syllable on the basis of complementary Distribution, i.e., the phonological environment decides the influence of the forties plosives and fricatives, as far as they are in find position preceded by stressed long vowels and diphthongs, or particular voiced consonants plus vowels.

The Iraqi learners, then, face difficulty in manipulating this phonological phenomena, i.

e., they are unable to pronounce the chipped vowels.

This paper is meant to find out how twelve Iraqi postgraduates, MA students in Linguistics College of Languages-English Department, are capable of pronouncing the clipped vowels in mono- and polly-syllables ; a questionnaire is designed to specify their contribution by transcribing twelve pairs of items to manipulate this phonological phenomenon within the domain of rhythmicity.