American English Pronunciation Workbook
Examples of the Vowel [i]
Primary Stress
1.
[ðiz]
they have these
2.
[ðiz]
yknow these there's a whole generation of kids now
3.
[nis]
who's one of these
4.
[ðiz]
i asked these germans what the
5.
[bɪtwin]
between naples and rome
6.
[bitwin]
uh uh very clear distinction between what is
7.
[bɪtwin]
seems like they only had the distinction between
8.
[bətwin]
he's kind of between the west and the south area southwest yeah
9.
[bitwin]
should be between two people that love each other
10.
[izi]
think about things i mean it's pretty easy to do
11.
[izi]
like most of the time it's pretty easy like it's pretty straightforward sometimes it's really aggravating when
12.
[izi]
it wasn't easy
13.
[ikwəli]
equally
14.
[ikwl̩i]
equally but with the where we are in our evolution that we're not ready for it
15.
[aɪdiə]
probably wouldn't be a good idea
16.
[aɪdiɪ]
think a little bit safer idea
Secondary Stress
17.
[noʊbɑɾi]
came to it and it got so used to be nobody appreciated a substitute nobody
18.
[noʊbəɾi]
nobody in my
Unstressed
19.
[ɛni]
any huge difference
20.
[ɛni]
any uh
21.
[ɛni]
have any
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