Friday, March 04, 2005, 01:51 GMT
First of all, I'd like to thank everybody for answering my message.
Now, I have a couple of comments to make. Some people mentioned that they "don't have" a [@] glide before the liquid in the positions I mentioned at the top of the list. I think that having this glide is not "compulsory" but a tendency - in British English, at least. As far as I know, RP keeps as the primary choice the pronunciation /fI:l/ with a possible glide between the vowel and the liquid. Professor Wells mentions that some RP speakers may say /fi:@l/ or /fI@l/. My question would be the following:
- If the phoneme /i:/ may be [Ii] phonetically in RP and Estuary English, and if the speaker happens to vocalize the liquid, can the following phonetic transcriptions be at all possible?
a. /fi:l/ > [fIil] > [fIio] (with the possibility to elide the second element of the glide)
b. /fi:@l/ > [fIi@l] > [fIi@o] (with the possibility to elide the second element of the glide)
c. /fI@l/ > [fI@o] (with the possibility to elide the second element of the glide)
Thanks again,
franciscozabala@yahoo.com
Now, I have a couple of comments to make. Some people mentioned that they "don't have" a [@] glide before the liquid in the positions I mentioned at the top of the list. I think that having this glide is not "compulsory" but a tendency - in British English, at least. As far as I know, RP keeps as the primary choice the pronunciation /fI:l/ with a possible glide between the vowel and the liquid. Professor Wells mentions that some RP speakers may say /fi:@l/ or /fI@l/. My question would be the following:
- If the phoneme /i:/ may be [Ii] phonetically in RP and Estuary English, and if the speaker happens to vocalize the liquid, can the following phonetic transcriptions be at all possible?
a. /fi:l/ > [fIil] > [fIio] (with the possibility to elide the second element of the glide)
b. /fi:@l/ > [fIi@l] > [fIi@o] (with the possibility to elide the second element of the glide)
c. /fI@l/ > [fI@o] (with the possibility to elide the second element of the glide)
Thanks again,
franciscozabala@yahoo.com