Chinese learners of English may experience some typical phonetic and phonological difficulties in learning English. Use your linguistic knowledge to demonstrate the difficulties you encounter and provide examples when necessary (for linguistics candidates only).
The typical phonetic and phonological difficulties in learning English are as follows:
(1) Voiced Alveolar Approximant Sound
The first two of the four words shown below demonstrate the use of the turned R or voiced alveolar approximant sound in their pronunciation. Represented by letter r, this sound in English can be seen in red or write. The pronunciation of the last two in the table, however, is somehow different from the first two. Being at the end of the words factor and car, the voiced alveolar approximant sound /ι/ becomes less stressed in English.
