by Sera M. (guest)
11/18/2008, 10:04 AM
In most American accents (and possibly most accents for native speakers of English), the difference between the EE sound and the sound you are talking about (and I do know what sound you are talking about) would be negligible. It's not a vowel sound that is normally found in English. I found your phonetic transcription to be confusing/misleading.
It seems that the main difference between your transcription and theirs (apart from nonstandard vowel sounds) is the emphasis - you placed emphasis on the final syllable, and they placed emphasis on the first.