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

There's always some smart alec, isn't there? ;) And I'm well aware that
different dialects have [I] word finally (like RP, for example), but I was
including that because of the rumour that Australians use [i] in place of
[I].

Tristan


On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Muke Tever wrote:

> 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!
>