Vale wrote:
>and I was surprised to hear that the vowel in "Dull" was very strange to my ears, I perceived it like a double vowel (perhaps at the beginning it's something like an italian "a" mixed with an italian open "o", and at the end something like an italian "u" mixed with an italian closed "o
You're right! Americans ( and the British? ) insert a schwa sound ( @) in one-syllable words between the ending R or L sound and the preceding vowel. As the inverted [V] phonetic symbol, as in DULL, sounds as a stressed schwa, you must have heard a sustained long vowel with a 'crack' in the middle ( so it's not sustained!!! I'm so stupid! ).
Also, when and A precedes that R or L sound in one-syllable words they won't pronounce it as the 'xiphopagus' /ae/, as in fAt, but as the /e/ as in bEd followed by the 'xyphopagus' @+r. Example: 'care' will most likely be pronounced as /ke@r.../ rather than /kaer/ or / Bye,
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