Re: [wEr\ Ar\ ju: fr6m] ?

From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <anstouh@...>
> > I live in Sydney ['sId_}ni:], Australia [@'strEIlj@].
>
> Are you sure the [i] in Sydney is long? Most people I've heard just use a
> short [i] there (not an /I/, though; I'm talking about the unstressed
> allophone of /i:/).
In my area, [I] *is* the unstressed allophone of /i:/.

So you have words like {fifty} ["fIt:I] which in GenAm is ["fIfti].

(I don't think I have that [I] personally, but I'm hearing it more and more
often around me.)


    *Muke!

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