Dragon27 пишет: ↑28 июн 2018, 21:56
Не /twɔnɪ/, а /twʌni/ (и гласную на конце я бы как ɪ не обозначал). Один из вариантов произношения, в словарях указывается.
Да, o-звуки имеют тенденцию звучать как а-звуки. Часто, но не всегда. Я это слышу и в twɔnɪ - часто, но не всегда.
Последняя гласная часто описывается как средняя между i и ɪ
Из Википедии:
Father–bother merger (/ɒ/ → [ɑ]): Nearly all American accents merge the short o of words like spot and odd to the sound of the broad a in words like spa and ah; therefore, sob and Saab are homophones in General American.
Cot–caught merger in transition: There is no single General American way to pronounce the vowels in words like cot /ɑ/ (the ah or broad a vowel) versus caught /ɔ/ (the aw vowel), largely due to a merger occurring between the two sounds in some parts of North America, but not others. American speakers with a completed merger pronounce the two historically separate vowels with the exact same sound (especially in the West, northern New England, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, and the Upper Midwest), but other speakers have no trace of a merger at all (especially in the South, the Great Lakes region, southern New England, and the Mid-Atlantic and New York metropolitan areas) and so pronounce each vowel with distinct sounds (About this sound listen).[78] Among speakers who distinguish between the two, the vowel of cot (usually transcribed in American English as [ɑ] (About this sound listen)), may be central [ä] (About this sound listen) or advanced back [ɑ̟], while /ɔ/ is pronounced with more rounded lips and/or phonetically higher in the mouth, close to [ɒ] (About this sound listen) or [ɔ] (About this sound listen), but with only slight rounding.[69] Among speakers who do not distinguish between the two and are thus said to have undergone the cot–caught merger, /ɑ/ usually remains a back vowel, [ɑ], sometimes showing lip rounding as [ɒ]. Therefore, General American speakers vary greatly with this speech feature, with possibilities ranging from a full merger to no merger at all. In the middle of this range, a transitional stage of the merger is also common in random scatterings throughout the U.S., though especially among younger speakers and most consistently in the Midland region lying between the historical North and South. According to a 2003 dialect survey carried out across the United States, about 61% of participants perceive themselves as keeping the two vowels distinct and 39% do not.[79]