The point about stress is interesting. I’ve been playing with pronouncing the phrase, and almost everything tends toward [ɐ] when I speak the syllables one at a time, even the ones I marked with and pronounce as a schwa in normal speech. The notable exceptions are the final schwas in “obstruction” and “onions”, which tend toward [ɪ], and the -nel of “tunnel”, which is something like [nɫ] (vocalic ɫ) ~ [nəɫ].
Comment on xkcd #2907: Schwa
lugal@lemmy.world 8 months agoThey merge in many accents merge these two sounds as Dr Geoff Lindsey explains here.
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 8 months ago
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Thank you for reminding me of this channel, I’d forgotten about it.