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| Apr 8, 2015 at 4:58 | answer | added | Cord | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 13, 2015 at 10:06 | answer | added | Grammar wonk | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 13, 2015 at 7:40 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | It's really good. And I can clearly hear the -s ending on weeks. | |
| Mar 13, 2015 at 7:30 | answer | added | mss | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 19, 2015 at 23:48 | comment | added | Hot Licks | It kinda sounds like you said "week" instead of "weeks", though that may be a problem with the recording. Other than that, an accent is clearly present, but not very strong. | |
| Feb 19, 2015 at 23:29 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Some Americans use the same vowel for /ʌ/ and /ə/, but some don't. | |
| Feb 19, 2015 at 23:05 | answer | added | user111191 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 18, 2015 at 6:35 | comment | added | None | I'd say [wiːks] and not [wiks] | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 9:18 | comment | added | David Garner | Thank-you, Zoltan, that makes sense. As it happens, I've noticed that here in Northern England, people whose speech is a compromise between their northern accent and RP English tend to use /ə/ for 'short U'. E.g. pronouncing 'cup' as /kəp/, which in Northern England would be /kʊp/ but in RP /kʌp/. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 13:13 | comment | added | Zoltan King | According to Beverly Lujan's book "The American Accent Guide" the [ʌ] is stressed schwa. Some people say both [ʌ] and [ə] are the same sound, although I can hear a difference between them. I'm Hungarian and [ʌ] sounds more like ɑ as in father for me, this is why I used [ɑ] instead of [ʌ]. Anyway I read that Americans don't really make difference between the two sounds. | |
| Feb 11, 2015 at 22:24 | comment | added | David Garner | @John Lawler, could you explain why you added "(phonetically [ʌ])"? I get the stressed shwa, which is also now normal in British English 'gonna' and 'because'. | |
| Feb 11, 2015 at 17:31 | comment | added | Zoltan King | Thanks Digital Chris. Your time is appreciated. Can I remove the question? I don't find the option. | |
| Feb 11, 2015 at 16:59 | comment | added | John Lawler | Everything's fine in the transcription, except that (in American English, anyway) gonna is pronounced /'ɡənə/, with a stressed shwa (phonetically [∧]), rather than with [ɑ]. | |
| Feb 11, 2015 at 16:55 | comment | added | Digital Chris | ell.stackexchange.com might be a more appropriate place for this kind of question. | |
| Feb 11, 2015 at 16:52 | history | asked | Zoltan King | CC BY-SA 3.0 |