USAGE: English vowel transciption [Re: Droppin' D's Revisited]

Irina Rempt wrote, quoting myself:

> > To my ears, Irina's pronunciation of 'Dutch' sounds like
> > /d@tS/.
>
> I think what I actually say (or should be saying) is [dVtS]. If I try
> to pronounce it with [a] I have an awful Australian accent! :-)
This confirms what Nik once said on this list that [@] and [V] are more
or less identical, the latter being associated with stress.

[V] doesn't exist in my dialect (or any Australian dialect as far as I'm
aware).

Do you remember anything about the phonetics of my own speech? I know it
was nine months ago ...

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