Re: Schwa and [V]: Learning the IPA

On 6/13/06, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:

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> And FWIW, in "[Ss]ulky" as well as simple "sulk", I have something in
> between a lateralized(*) [U] and a vocalized [l].  Whatever my /V/
> vowel really is, it doesn't appear there; in fact, I can't think of
> any words in which it appears before /l/.
Nor for me. For me it's closer to /@/ than to anything else; it's the
same sound as the middle vowel in "habitat". But when I lived near
NYC, many friends from the Bronx pronounced it much closer to /V/, as
they did the vowel in "her". I was never quite able to duplicate it.

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