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Is true that English speakers pronounce /i/ as /e/ ~ /ɛ/ when yelling?
Although the happY vowel has shifted from [ɪ] to [i] in prestige accents of both the UK and the US in the 20th century, [ɪ] remains in Southern American English and Black English. Lowered realizations ...
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Is true that English speakers pronounce /i/ as /e/ ~ /ɛ/ when yelling?
In that Turn me On song, sung my Nicki Menaj, she pronounces me two different ways herself: one way inside a sentence, another at the end of a sentence. So the yelling thing is basically off-mark. It'...
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