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Re: Schwa and [V]: Learning the IPA

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Thursday, June 15, 2006, 7:52
staving Larry Sulky:
>I think I must have totally missed everybody's points. I didn't >realise that the existence of [V], [U], or [@] in at least some >American English dialects was in question. I'm from the American west >coast, with influences from the American midwest and Toronto, Ontario.
My Middle Class Northern English appears to have no [@] or [V]
>I pronounce "but" and the "a" in "about" as [V].
[bUt], [&baut]
>I pronounce "foot" and "put" as [U].
[fUt], [pUt]
>I pronounce "boot" and "loon" as [u].
[but], [lun] (or possibly [bu:t], [lu:n]
>I pronounce the "i" in "hobbit" as [@].
[hObIt] Pete