Re: [wEr\ Ar\ ju: fr6m] ?
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 8:30 |
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On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, D Tse wrote:
> 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:/).
> I don't consider myself to have a giant stereotypical Australian
> accent at all.
But who does? Actually, I think I heard someone on the bus the other day
with a rather broad accent, the closest anyone's ever got to a Real
Life(tm) equivalent to Hollywood Strine.
Tristan
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