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who speaks American English; Mandarin Chinese, with a Taiwanese accent, probably; and Spanish (one semester of middle school) Notation: I'll write IPA unadorned, example English words or "intuitive" fragments in quotes, and X-SAMPA as code. Example: the IPA ə is the "a" in "about" and has X-SAMPA @. VowelsThe bad news is that none of the lowercase vowels (a e i o u) are intuitive for an English speaker; the good news is that all of them are intuitive for a Spanish speaker. The "English 101" sounds associated with the vowels are: "a" ("bat") = æ = { "e" ("bet")...