Hi,
I would like somebody to help me transcribe these words:
Achilles
Phoebe
Aesop
Caesar
Leigh
Beauchamp
psychiatric
amateur
All I know is that all these words, apart from the last one, should have the sound /i:/. I can't find it in any dictionary, but I mustn't tell my teacher that I'm not going to transcribe a couple of words, cause my dictionary isn't good enough. :-) Please, remember to put the stress and, if there is more than one in the word, mark a less and more important one.
As far as the word "amateur" is concerned, I looked it up and found out that the correct transcription is [`æmətə(r)] whereas this word is supposed to have the so-called long shwa sound. It might be the matter of stress. It might... In my opinion, the last syllabe should be stressed and then I should say it a kind of [ætəm`ɜ:(r)]. What d'you think? :-)
Thanks for any help.
Narrow-Minded :)