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Comparison of General American and Received Pronunciation

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Received Pronunciation has been the subject of many academic studies, and is frequently used as a model for teaching English to foreign learners. The widely repeated claim that only about two percent of Britons speak RP is no more than a rough estimate and has been questioned by several writers, most
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in conservative RP. The degree of flapping varies considerably among speakers, and is often reduced in more formal settings. It does occur to an extent in nearly all speakers of American English, with
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pronounced with a flap almost ubiquitously regardless of background. Pronouncing the t would be considered overly formal. This does not mean it always completely merges with
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is no longer found in RP, it is found in those GA speakers who do not have the cot–caught merger (which otherwise neutralizes this split). This results in
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For some GA speakers from any U.S. region whose accents are derived from, or similar to, those that originate especially in
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RP has a marked degree of contrast of length between "short" and "long" vowels (the long vowels being the diphthongs plus
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of each country. The standard varieties for each are in fact generalizations: for the U.S., a loosely defined spectrum of
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is more common in American than in British English, with a short vowel in GA and a long vowel in RP in such words as
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occur in both GA and RP in unstressed syllables or after a stressed vowel. RP however more often retains the
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article as a "corruption of the language" so that it has been either unconventional or nonexistent in RP.
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before a consonant and at the end of an utterance, RP either has no consonant (if the preceding vowel is
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Most General American accents, but not British ones, have undergone vowel mergers before /r/: the
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is only pronounced in RP when it is immediately followed by a vowel sound. Where GA pronounces
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merger, a total three-way merger being the most common throughout North America.
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Nearly half of American speakers additionally use the same vowel for the RP
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Differences in pronunciation between British and American standard English
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The voiceless stops /t/, /p/, and /k/ have a stronger aspiration in RP.
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retain, coalesce in stressed or unstressed syllables, or drop it after
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have merged in American English. Thus "moral" and "oral" rhyme in GA (
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in RP, particularly before voiceless fricatives and sometimes before
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however is somewhat less common in GA than in RP, for example in
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For some RP speakers (upper class), unlike in GA, some or all of
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in RP, both older and contemporary). This is reflected in the "
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Differences between General American and Received Pronunciation
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vowels, where GA has only two or even one. GA speakers use
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occurs in GA at the onset of stressed syllables after all
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is that of specific word pronunciations, as described in
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in many words where GA has a front open unrounded vowel
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has resulted in RP having the back unrounded open vowel
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respectively, but many GA speakers retain it, becoming
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accents (often classified along a continuum with local
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