[YAEPT] Re: Of accents & dialects

On Thu 30 Oct 2008, And Rosta wrote:
>
> Mark J. Reed, On 30/10/2008 15:57:
> > IME, rapid American "respiratory" drops a syllable, but not an 'r', so
> > "respitory" is inaccurate.  More like "respritory" or "respertory".
> > Laurie's accent is phenomenal.
>
> That's my nonrhotic ears mishearing, then. /respr'tori/ -- that does make
> more sense.
>
>     r e sp i r a t o ri
> US  r e sp % r % t o ri
> UK1 r e sp % r % t % ri
> UK2 r % sp i r % t % ri
>
> where '%' = zero or a very weak vowel. The change from UK1 to UK2
> is a change that occurs in many words, to avoid sequences of 3 % in a row.
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Can't keep away from these ever so fascinating studies of
 - the ties that bind us, the wounds that sever -
now can we? ;-)

Try this, then:
    r e sp i r a t o ri
US  r e sp % r % t o ri
UK1 r e sp % r % t % ri
UK2 r % sp i r % t % ri
AUS r e sp % r a t % ri

where the AUS "a" in this position tends toward a more
central accented schwa.

Regards,
Yahya
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