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Re: YAEPT: "restaurant" et sim

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Monday, November 13, 2006, 23:09
> On 11/13/06, Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote: > > American here, too (in case anyone didn't know).
> > I pronounce "restaurant" as ['r\Est,ra(:)nt_}], "lavatory" as > > ['l&v@,t_hOr\i(:)], and > >" ambulance" as ['&mbju,l@ns].
My dia/idiolect pretty much agrees with those; except the final a of restaurant is closer to A or Q, and short; and > [@] in casual use; fast speech, maybe the -t > [?] is a C-initial word follows, or phrase-final; but it may simply be an unreleased [t] My middle syl. V of ambulance is closer to [@]. Family pronunciation: occasional ['&mbli@ns] after my sister's childhood speech :-))).

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