Re: vowel descriptions
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 15, 1998, 17:46 |
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Sheets, Jeff wrote:
> I do. I can't possibly see myself easily pronouncing /V<r>/ but /@<r>/ is
> trivial. as far as I am concerned /@/ is just complete neutrality in
> vowels, and also spoken extremely quickly. If tk were an English word for
> instance, I would pronounce it /t@k/ but tuk is /tVk/ to me.
But can you pronounce /@/ stressed without it becoming /V/, or /V/
unstressed without it becoming /@/? I can't. Also, in my dialect, it's
not /@<r>/, but /r=/, that is, syllabic /r/.
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