Tham khảo tài liệu 'sound patterns of spoken english phần 3', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng nghe tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 24 Processes in Conversational English or ur are pronounced g in American English and are represented by some other form of central vowel in most British varieties. But a fl sequences can occur across word boundaries as in ged flaoz U fgyizinz Ji membi a red rose Jaffa raisins Psmsh. remember her and these are realized as g in many accents r-colouring is simply superimposed on the schwa. This could be regarded as the creation of a syllabic r by the same process as reflected in Lodge s transcription for Peasmarsh above. It is not commonly noted that it is possible to achieve something which might be called a syllabic w in some cases but see Ogden 1999 73 for similar cases . For example in SSB. when you say The dogs were barking what is spelled were can be pronounced as a rounded schwa that might also be described as a syllabic w. One might say again that the vowel and consonant gestures overlap completely and that the resulting segment does the work of both. Here however the schwa notionally follows the resonant rather than preceding it as it did in the cases above. Other examples Seiwz Psmsh. they was wz Ed. was actually wz Nor. was sedwjuu Psmsh. said well you . wi tfez Am. which was e biudip SSB. were building Fricatives Obstruents can also be syllabic if they have enough energy to function as a syllable nucleus. The most obvious candidates are fricatives and there are many cases where a fricative in an unstressed syllable can function as a syllable. Many cases are underlying s schwa voiceless obstruent sequences like suspicion support and satanic. J can show the same feature in sequences like Processes in Conversational English 25 Shapiro f puau or hit you hitf . Less common is syllabic f for pity s sake f piti or if Tom s there f tomzca . Syllabic fricatives are usually formed by the overlap with a following schwa rather than a preceding one in contrast with most examples above. Other examples Jb weish dftOipk Ỗ dosbem mcn Ê xtỊ m ksmam fga ShB. should waste .
