On another forum, some people were talking about various pronunciations and phonetic transcriptions of the word
button. Someone posted a bunch of sound clips, and I was wondering how accurate my transcriptions were.
Here's my post from over there, with links to the sound clips:
1.
[b??n] It sounds like a syllabic [n] here, but it could vary with [?n].
2.
[b?t??n] 2a might have a long vowel in the first syllable, and it also sounds like you might be stressing the second vowel and making it [?] instead of [?]. It's hard to tell.
3.
[b??n] I think I'd do a syllabic [n] here again.
4.
[b???n] This definitely sounds like [?] and not [?], contrary to what I said in response to your earlier description.
4a.
[b???n] This looks right to me too.
I figured that since you used to be a phonetician, you'd be a better person to ask about this.
