Pardon? Claude's Ratio Angles & Perspectives March 31, 2015 The British Prime Minister pledged to create 1,000 jobs a day if he were re-elected. He must have been on... Read more »
The Three Gentlemen (I’m afraid not from Verona) Claude's Ratio Angles & Perspectives March 31, 2015 The winds of political passion appear to have died down long before the hectic phase of reforms gets to the... Read more »
A Travesty: Expo Milan 2015. A massive waste of public money Claude's Ratio Angles & Perspectives March 26, 2015 Italian politicians, local authorities and the general population are under the unlikely illusion that the Expo 2015 will bring a... Read more »
Rhoticity in the UK Claude's Ratio Angles & Perspectives March 26, 2015 Rhoticity is a term most probably coined by Wells (2010). It denotes the use of the /r/ phoneme... Read more »
English Dark L [ɫ] Claude's Ratio Angles & Perspectives March 24, 2015 Not all L sounds in English are the same. There is a distinct difference between the L sound of... Read more »
Complementary Distribution in Linguistics Claude's Ratio Angles & Perspectives March 23, 2015 Complementary distribution The notion of ‘phoneme’ is sufficiently abstract that many students have a hard time getting hold of... Read more »
Assimilation in English phonetics Claude's Ratio Angles & Perspectives March 19, 2015 Assimilation is when two sounds come together and change or melt into a new sound. Assimilations may happen inside... Read more »
Italy second most corrupted in the EC, the issue much worse than tax dodging Claude's Ratio Angles & Perspectives March 17, 2015 Italy is the eurozone country with the most common level of perception of corruption, second in Europe only to Romania,... Read more »
Girl. Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, 12.1.2014 Claude's Ratio Angles & Perspectives March 16, 2015 She stopped unasked and posed for us.... Read more »
Introduction to Schwa /ə/ Claude's Ratio Angles & Perspectives February 24, 2015 The reduced vowel sound called schwa is the most common vowel sound in spoken English. Schwa is a quick, relaxed,... Read more »