Noted. I've noticed you are carefully spoken, but I hadn't heard your unstressed vowels.
(In the case of the post's dialog, pretty sure the author is not signaling that this speaker reduces unstressed vowels, since she would presumably then do the same nonstandard spellings throughout the book for all dialog from a standard-dialect speaker.)
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Date: 2011-07-11 10:25 am (UTC)(In the case of the post's dialog, pretty sure the author is not signaling that this speaker reduces unstressed vowels, since she would presumably then do the same nonstandard spellings throughout the book for all dialog from a standard-dialect speaker.)