Francisco Zabala - 2014 “Happy /i/” “Happy /i/” “Happy /i/” is the name we give this vowel, because it is found in unstressedunstressedunstressed position at the at the end of wordse
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“Happy /i/”
“Happy /i/”
“Happy /i/” is the name we give this vowel, because it is found in unstressedunstressedunstressed position
at the
at the end of wordsend of wordsend of words such as happy, city, easy and silly There is a lot of variation in terms
of its exact phonetic quality Supposedly, the key factor is the speaker’s age On the one hand, older speakers tend to use the same vowel quality in the first and second syllables of the word
silly On the other hand, younger people tend to use a similar vowel quality in both syllables in easy This means that older speakers seem to use a final .H., while younger speakers use a shorter version of h9 This is why “happy /i/”“happy /i/” is as short asas short as quality resembles
resembles .h9
Compare:
Billy: Older speakers Easy: Older speakers
This vowel is also present in a special group of monosyllabic grammar words These are normally said in a very weak as they are not normally stressed:
Let ’s find examples!