American English Pronunciation Workbook

Examples of the Consonant [ɹ]


Word Initial

1.   [ɹɔŋ]

so there's always something going wrong

2.   [ɹaɪʔt]

right

3.   [ɹoʊl]

should be their role

4.   [ɹulz]

rules there

5.   [ɹoʊ]

if they were gonna end it they were gonna have to have like three episodes in a row that just were tieing up all these loose ends that they keep having

6.   [ɹɛvɚ]

for the concert on the river

7.   [ɹənɪŋ]

i like him personally and when he was running for uh mayor i would have voted for him i met him and everything but i guess he just is

8.   [ɹənɪŋ]

working at meijer running the cash register it's just kind of like steady it's like you look at

9.   [ɹən̩]

the statute running out we filed

10.   [ɹɛvəleɪʃɛn]

that revelation

Word Medial

11.   [sɪɹiɪsli]

seriously

12.   [dɪfɹɛnt]

family values are are still gonna be very different

Word Final

13.   [mɔɹ]

it's more

14.   [hɛɹ]

started to school out there

15.   [bəfɔɹ]

i don't think i said that before

16.   [səmwɛɹ]

right now i'm saving up money and trying to buy a house somewhere

17.   [nɛɹ]

in there

18.   [ɹæðɛɹ]

our influence on him rather than the peer's influence on him

19.   [θɛɹ]

out there and so

20.   [mɔɹ]

more concerned with

21.   []

the actual eye and the ear

22.   [fɑɹ]

maybe i'm coming too far

23.   [ɔɹ]

or

24.   [ɑɹ]

and our

25.   [ʃɛɹ]

um share and uh

26.   [ənfɛɹ]

it's unfair yknow life is unfair nothing ever works and

27.   [hiɹ]

when i was younger we used my dad and i would ride our bikes down here and it was

28.   [fɑɹ]

you'll spend your last dollar on it if you're that far gone

29.   [bifɔɹ]

uh before

30.   [ɑɹ]

are our pop

In a Consonant Cluster

31.   [pɹaɪs]

let go i mean that's an awfully small price to pay for

32.   [kɹæks]

uh ceilings all of the peeling floors all the the bad chalk boards with cracks in them and all that kind of stuff

33.   [fɹɛʃ]

he can eat fresh water

34.   [ʤɹoʊ]

drove me to the corner

35.   [ɡɹeɪd]

too when i got in ninth grade

36.   [ʧɪldɹɛn]

i worked for a company called highlights for children

37.   [ʧɪldɹən]

children and the placement of children in the family and the

38.   [θɹi]

it's made up of four rounds usually sometimes three


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