Re: YAEPT: track

Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> I once read a book aimed at enabling students to
> make *very* narrow transcriptions of English speech.
> It claimed that the actual phonetic realization of
> '/tSr/' where it occurs is [t`s`] -- not unreasonably
> if the realization of /r/ is retroflex, which it
> apparently is in most accents in both the US and
> the UK.

I'd say they're both retroflex, but the US accents are generally further
back than the English ones.