Re: Schwas in America
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 8, 2004, 16:15 |
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On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:33:32PM +1000, Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
> >Et cetera. (Oh, and only the @/I distinction is the one I'm
> >interested in--not in any
> >other aspect of the transcription.)
Well, it's a bit more complicated than that. Most of my /@/s sound
exactly like my /V/s apart from emphasis. Some /@/s do come out more
[I]ish, but the guiding factor seems to be mouth position going in.
The final schwa in <explicit> is [I]like because my mouth was all set up
for the emphasied /I/ in the preceding syllable.
-Mark