American English Pronunciation Workbook

Examples of the Vowel [ɚ]


Primary Stress

1.   [wɚk]

was healed enough to go back to work

2.   [ɡɚl]

if i had a girl come from home to visit me i'd have to

3.   [ɡɚl̩]

uh being a girl

4.   [fɚst]

know whether it's first or maybe second grade out there

5.   [ʧɚʧ]

i found my current church

6.   [wɚi]

whatever until i was much much older i didn't worry about that when i was that age and

7.   [sɚvəs]

i took all classes off winter quarter and worked for a courier service

8.   [pɚsən]

is a person who has an m d

9.   [mɚɾɚd]

a crime is a crime and yknow are you going to give someone who murdered matthew shepard

10.   [kɚənli]

one's a student here currently

11.   [lɚnɪŋ]

learning

12.   [sɚʔtn̩]

if you're below the poverty level and you do go back to work you get a certain like

13.   [sɚtn̩]

even american disabilities act talks about certain things about employers

14.   [sɚʔtn̩]

i mean we had goals certain things that

15.   [ɚliɚ]

um i was gonna say earlier and i and i forgot to mention it is that one of the best campaigns i've seen in recent years utilizing college age students has been clinton's campaign both times

16.   [ɚliɚ]

yeah make their job earlier and faster

17.   [junəvɚsɪti]

about the university ever

18.   [ɹisɚʧ]

job title is a senior research associate

19.   [kɪnsɚvɪdɪv]

conservative

20.   [ɹɪzɚf]

a lot of people switch from being like the really quiet more reserved people to the

Secondary Stress

21.   [nɛwəɹk]

a data network

Unstressed

22.   [oʊvɚ]

i've heard friends say yknow their thirteen year olds just rolled over from one to the other yknow from the best kid in town to

23.   [oʊvɚ]

over and over and over we just keep repeating and repeating our bad stuff instead of getting off of it

24.   [əðɚ]

to get together with other friends and take our kids places i don't remember my dad doing that stuff yknow two or three dads get together and take six kids

25.   [əðɚz]

i don't know any others

26.   [fɪɡjɚs]

exchange any money or have any money figures planned out just

27.   [fɛɾɚəl]

and you take federal and state and all that and add it up

28.   [jɛstɚdeɪ]

although janet you just said yesterday that

29.   [kwɚɾɚ]

spring quarter

30.   [dɑləɚz]

eight dollars

31.   [fɑðɚs]

multiple fathers

32.   [kɚɪɹ]

as a career it's just sort of something i'm doing in the meantime till i

33.   [nəmbɚs]

but you just punch in your numbers always you just talk with numbers


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