American English Pronunciation Workbook

Examples of the Consonant [syllabic]


Syllabic /l/

1.   [kɹɪvl̩d]

my dad was crippled for

2.   [pl̩is]

the police force and a lot of other officials are

3.   [pɚsənl̩i]

me personally

4.   [skɹæmbl̩d]

and then it where it gets interpreted into the brain it gets all scrambled somehow

5.   [dɪseɪbl̩d]

she's disabled

6.   [səksɛsfl̩i]

like years i would think to implement the programs successfully

7.   [soʊʃl̩aɪz]

but you socialize a lot more if you're in the city

8.   [kɛməkl̩s]

stop yeah those are real chemicals

9.   [toʊl̩i]

that was exciting for me but that's totally out of the question for me now

10.   [toʊɾl̩i]

totally

11.   [kaʊnsl̩ɪŋ]

been to counseling they've already tried a lot of other things

12.   [mɑɾl̩s]

role models

13.   [kɹɪml̩z]

uh normal people get a gun and the criminals will always have a gun well obviously that's not true you know

14.   [ænəml̩z]

and none of the animals they profiled were pets

15.   [pɛnl̩ɾi]

uh and penalty can be a very very simple thing a mother can simply

16.   [l̩aʊd]

then the uh mcdonald's is allowed a

17.   [pipl̩v]

all their life people've been saying

18.   [neɪpl̩z]

at naples

19.   [bl̩ivz]

she more believes in the religion aspects of it

20.   [dwɪndl̩ɪŋ]

kind of dwindling

21.   [aɪsl̩eɪɾɪd]

that's no that's no drawback we're not isolated

22.   [ʤɚnl̩lɪzəm]

journalism

23.   [dəbl̩l]

just over double that it was like sixty thousand

24.   [kəbl̩s]

you can squeeze out of a couple's personal life

25.   [dɪseɪbl̩d]

learning disabled and they don't understand math either even though it's very concrete

26.   [l̩ɛkʃn̩]

the last presidential election in ninety six

Syllabic /m/

27.   [km̩pleɪnts]

three complaints have uh formal complaints

28.   [pɹɑblm̩]

to commit this problem

29.   [pɹɔm̩]

the problem is a

30.   [pɹɑm̩]

the problem is

31.   [m̩ɛɹkɪ]

a dead native american at his feet and three more at the side looking on in fear

32.   [hævm̩]

you haven't been able to focus on that

33.   [m̩plɔɪiz]

numbers employees by different occupations in different industries in different areas

34.   [pɹɑbm̩]

you got a real problem there

35.   [fɹm̩]

uh german film from the twenties

36.   [m̩pɔɹn̩]

is not important

37.   [m̩æʤɪn]

imagine it and that's basically what happened to her and her mom had three kids

38.   [səm̩]

to almost something what we're talking about now i think sometimes

Syllabic /n/

39.   [dɛfn̩li]

definitely at least standable and

40.   [ɹɪleɪʃn̩ʃɪps]

more receptive to relationships

41.   [ivn̩]

writer even though he can spell

42.   [kʊdn̩]

yknow when they couldn't talk to me that was irrelevant

43.   [wʊɾn̩ʔt]

but then you go to a lot of other extremes yknow where you set there and these people wouldn't

44.   [dɪdn̩]

and i didn't panic or anything

45.   [əɡɹɛʃn̩]

aggression management or something like that

46.   [sɛkn̩]

well it beats getting a second job

47.   [wʊdn̩]

so i wouldn't

48.   [ɚbn̩]

amazing the urban sprawl has taken

49.   [n̩tɛl]

move to a suburban area until columbus gets their act together

50.   [ɹɛkɹieɪʃn̩]

like recreation centers or something in their own neighborhood

51.   [stuɾn̩ts]

one of my students wanted to say

52.   [sɛʔtn̩s]

leave off a suffix at the end or and the sentence makes no sense

53.   [lɪsn̩d]

i listened to someone

54.   [koʊɹdn̩s]

in accordance to

55.   [n̩əf]

children's lives enough

56.   [ɹizn̩z]

either security reasons hunting reasons or practice

57.   [km̩ɪʃn̩]

commission

Syllabic /ng/

58.   [ŋkeɪ]

okay

59.   [wɚkŋm]

when i first started working for the courier service

60.   [ŋkeɪ]

okay well

61.   [ɡɹiŋz]

to uh to be drafted uh greetings

62.   [ŋklaɪnd]

because i'm extremely musically inclined it's one of the gifts that i've gotten

63.   [bɹiŋ]

bringing christianity

64.   [hŋkeɪ]

okay

65.   [ŋɡeɪʤɪŋ]

oh yeah but i see everyone as engaging in sinful behavior because


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