part /pa:t/,
sort /so:t/. In words like
turn, shirt, bird both /з:/ and ret
roflex /з7 are used. In unstressed positions retroflex /з7 is substi
tuted by the vow el /э/. The linking
I t / is used normally. In
m onosyllabic words like
pot, top, not the vowel /а/ is usually
used. This is correct regarding words in which the sound /r/ fol
low s the vowel:
orange /a3rind3/,
sorry /sari/,
horror /hare/ etc.
1 А.Д. Швейцер. Литературный английский язык в США и Англии. М., Изд. «Высшая школа», 1971, с. 50. 2 IV. Labov. The Social Stratification of English in New York City. Center for Applied Linguistics. 1966, p. 5.
The distinction between long and short vowels is not per
ceived in word pairs like
pot /pat/ -