Alska/Dialects: Difference between revisions

The Apostrophe (<i>'</i>) represents the phone [ɛ], and is used only when the sound is to be fully realized.  The apostrohpe is used to counteract the dropping of word-final, unstressed syllables in Eastern Alska.  It is also used in stressed syllables because the letter ''e'' only represents the phone [e:].  If ''e'', or any other vowel is found in an unstressed syllable (usually at the end of a word), it is dropped from speech.  However, is '' ' '' is in the final syllable, it is still unstressed, but the [ɛ] is pronounced.