Chapter 3. Vowel Shortening

A Course in Phonetics UC Berkeley Linguistics

Chapter 3. Vowel shortening before voiceless final fricatives

American voice	English voice
strife, say strife twice	strife, say strife twice
strive, say strive twice	strive, say strive twice
teeth, say teeth twice	teeth, say teeth twice
teethe, say teethe twice	teethe, say teethe twice
rice, say rice twice	rice, say rice twice
rise, say rise twice	rise, say rise twice
mission, say mission twice	mission, say mission twice
vision, say vision twice	vision, say vision twice