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Dev team heads are here.
Dev team heads are.
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Now what's happening to our word 'are'?
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Heads are here.
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Heads are, heads are here.
'Heads are',
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it's reducing to just schwa R, and that
ending Z in 'heads' is linking right into it--
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Heads are, heads are.
Really smoothly --
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Heads are here.
Now the word here,
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if you look it up an IPA,
you'll see IH as in SIT, schwa R,
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but if you've been studying with me long
you might have learned
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that IH as in SIT followed by schwa R turns into something more like EE --
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Here. Not 'he, here',
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but -- He, he, he, here, here.
Heads are here.
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heads are here--
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and uh,
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Here and the,
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Okay, so I am hearing the D, why?
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