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"Here", - an adverb.
This is a content word and
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will normally be stressed in a sentence.
Here we have a vowel followed by R,
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in a stressed syllable and the R
consonant does change this vowel.
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We have the IH vowel, followed by
R, or schwa R in the same syllable.
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IH is affected.
-it's not a pure IH.
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that would sound like
hih-er, hih-er, hih-er.
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That's not how we say that word.
We say, here, here.
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When IH is followed by R in the same syllable,
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it's a lot more like the EE as in SHE vowel.
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Here, he-, EE, EE, here.
So there's less space between
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the top of the tongue and the roof of
the mouth than in a pure IH - here.
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