Is ANKI unpronounceable?

Using the app Anki as a starting point, this video explores vowel 'length' and the combinability (phonotactics) of sounds in American, British and other accents. We find how transcriptions such as /ɑːŋki/ are problematic and what they reveal about the way many UK dictionaries analyse American English.

0:00 Introduction: /ɑːŋ/?

1:41 Different pronunciations of 'Anki'

2:47 Vowel length, free and checked

4:05 Restrictions on long vowels

6:15 Vowels before /ŋ/ in S. Britain

7:36 Vowels before /ŋ/ in GenAm

9:08 English vowel groupings

11:02 father-bother merger in N. America

12:28 The reinforcement of length in S. Britain

14:37 American /ɑ/ - long? short?

16:37 Is /ɑːŋ/ possible?

18:41 BATH-broadening revisited

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