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minus-squareornery_chemist@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoDon’t a lot of these use the “strut” vowel (/ʌ/) and not schwa (/ə/) per se? My transcription would be /wʌts ʌp? wʌz dʌg gənə kʌm? dʌg lʌvz bɹʌntʃ. nʌʔʌ dʌgz stʌk kəz əv ə tʌnəl əbstɹʌkʃən. ə tɹʌk dʌmpt ə tʌn əv ʌnjənz. ʊχ./
minus-squarelugal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoThey merge in many accents merge these two sounds as Dr Geoff Lindsey explains here.
minus-squareTheBananaKing@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoYou use the same vowel for ‘what’ as you do for ‘up’? :confused Australian noises:
Don’t a lot of these use the “strut” vowel (/ʌ/) and not schwa (/ə/) per se?
My transcription would be
/wʌts ʌp? wʌz dʌg gənə kʌm? dʌg lʌvz bɹʌntʃ. nʌʔʌ dʌgz stʌk kəz əv ə tʌnəl əbstɹʌkʃən. ə tɹʌk dʌmpt ə tʌn əv ʌnjənz. ʊχ./
They merge in many accents merge these two sounds as Dr Geoff Lindsey explains here.
You use the same vowel for ‘what’ as you do for ‘up’?
:confused Australian noises: