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Why do we pronounce trunk as trʌŋk?

In RP whenever we have spelling n+k at the middle of a word we will pronounce /ŋ/+ /k/

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Look at this sentence: do we pronounce all the words with /ŋ/ and eliminate /g/? Why?

In ˈlɪvɪŋ the ŋ occurs at final position but in ˈstrɒŋgə and ˈlɒŋgə there's a final morpheme 'er' so we don't delete the /g/ from pronunciation

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How do we pronounce this word? Please explain the rule

ˈsɪŋə

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What happens with the words ending with spelling 'ng'? Do we pronounce ŋ+g?

We don't, it is just a final ŋ pronunciation

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How do we pronounce this word? Please explain the rule

rɒŋ

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How do we pronounce this word? Please explain the rule

rɪŋ

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How do we pronounce this word? Please explain the rule

ˈsɪŋgl

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ŋ never occurs in _____ position

initial

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How do we pronounce this word? Please explain the rule

ˈsʌmθɪŋ

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How do we pronounce this word? What is the rule?

ˈæŋgə is pronounced with ŋ+g because the final spelling 'er' doesn't represent a morpheme

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