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kalaa
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What
is the difference between these two short vowel sounds/ I / and / i
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Example:
City /ˈsɪti/ Thank you in advance
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25 Oct 2016
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x_spacegirl_x
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/ I / is spoken short, almost no sound and more like a very short �a �, and no emphasis / i / is long and usually used as emphasis |
25 Oct 2016
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Gi2gi
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Some dictionaries suggest [ �sɪtɪ] ... I am more used to transcribing the long sound as i: So, i is somewhere in between ɪ and i: Giorgi
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25 Oct 2016
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yanogator
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"City" is pronounced as if the two words "sit" and "tee" were merged into one. That should help you with those two vowel sounds. Bruce |
25 Oct 2016
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miss_alejandra
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I learnt that /i/ is called neutralized i sound, and in phonetics is commonly used when words end with a /y/ letter.
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25 Oct 2016
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67Englishteacher
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[i:] is long [i] and the other one (I don �t know how to type it) are both short but they sound differently. Neutralised [i] sounds roughly like [i:] but is shorter. Neutralised [i] is used instead of the other short "i" at the end of words AND before a vowel sound. Ex: at the end of "pretty" (but not in the first syllable), in "he" (end of word), in "react" (before a vowel sound). |
26 Oct 2016
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