Re: accents


"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

> Iain <iain_inkster@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Highlands -- girl
>
> [gIrl]
>
> > Lowlands -- G@rl
>
> > England -- G@l.
>
> [gV":l], with [V"] = reversed epsilon, I suppose.

I prefer [@:] to [V":], cause I reckon that's what it is. But it's
definitely a different phoneme from the short vowel phoneme /@/ at the
end of RP finger, or the two reduced vowels [@] in the middle of
entrepreneur in most English accents. (Are these reduced vowels
phonemes? Depends on the analysis, and the variety, I guess.)

John.


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