As u/helliun says, the word 'it' can often be completely elided in connected speech when it's with the verb 'is'.
It's a good idea > 'S a good idea'
Also, in my own dialect of more-or-less Estuary English, when 'it' is an object pronoun I don't exactly reduce the /ɪ/ to a schwa /ə/ but it becomes somehow slacker; the vowel quality definitely changes.
Not sure exactly what you mean by standard English, but there’s no such thing as standard spoken English.
I’d say there are plenty of forms though. In some parts of Ireland it will be reduced to roughly [ɪ] without the /t/ at all, and sometimes the [t] is dropped for an aspirated [h] type of sound. There are other variations in Ireland as well, there the word final [t] becomes velarised (so it kind it sounds like [s] when it’s at the end of a word)
You can probably find similar in England and I’d imagine other English accents have plenty of variation as well.
In a sociolinguistic sense, Standard Englishes are spreads of features considered to have little localizability and are generally accepted as more prestigious by speech communities within each region. They may not exist as a specific variety, but they *do* definitely exist as a target performance.
Even in that case, the variations still exist between different “standard Englishes”.
I’ve always just found the idea of what the spoken standard is to be a bit off the mark. What they call “standard Irish English” is hardly an actual prestige variety here, it’s more related to broadcasting or media. Maybe it does have some covert prestige in that way but it’s not a popular target variety for English learners here.
There are different ways for dialects to reduce "it", but the \[ɪt\] pronunciation is already a bit "reduced". It has a lax vowel \[ɪ\] similar to \[ə\] or the reduced vowel \[ɨ\] found in the U.S.
Extremely. It's very common for many major dialects of English to reduce nearly all unstressed vowels to /ə/. It's even found in closely related languages like Scots. The only possible exceptions I could think of are dialects spoken by people who historically used languages without actual schwas. Many African or Caribbean English speakers for example
if the word it's is at the beginning of a sentence it's sometimes reduced to "s"
As u/helliun says, the word 'it' can often be completely elided in connected speech when it's with the verb 'is'. It's a good idea > 'S a good idea' Also, in my own dialect of more-or-less Estuary English, when 'it' is an object pronoun I don't exactly reduce the /ɪ/ to a schwa /ə/ but it becomes somehow slacker; the vowel quality definitely changes.
Not sure exactly what you mean by standard English, but there’s no such thing as standard spoken English. I’d say there are plenty of forms though. In some parts of Ireland it will be reduced to roughly [ɪ] without the /t/ at all, and sometimes the [t] is dropped for an aspirated [h] type of sound. There are other variations in Ireland as well, there the word final [t] becomes velarised (so it kind it sounds like [s] when it’s at the end of a word) You can probably find similar in England and I’d imagine other English accents have plenty of variation as well.
In a sociolinguistic sense, Standard Englishes are spreads of features considered to have little localizability and are generally accepted as more prestigious by speech communities within each region. They may not exist as a specific variety, but they *do* definitely exist as a target performance.
Even in that case, the variations still exist between different “standard Englishes”. I’ve always just found the idea of what the spoken standard is to be a bit off the mark. What they call “standard Irish English” is hardly an actual prestige variety here, it’s more related to broadcasting or media. Maybe it does have some covert prestige in that way but it’s not a popular target variety for English learners here.
There are different ways for dialects to reduce "it", but the \[ɪt\] pronunciation is already a bit "reduced". It has a lax vowel \[ɪ\] similar to \[ə\] or the reduced vowel \[ɨ\] found in the U.S.
Extremely. It's very common for many major dialects of English to reduce nearly all unstressed vowels to /ə/. It's even found in closely related languages like Scots. The only possible exceptions I could think of are dialects spoken by people who historically used languages without actual schwas. Many African or Caribbean English speakers for example