barred i

plural barred i's

1. Synonym of i with stroke (“Ɨ/ɨ”)

   i with stroke/barred i Additional Latin Letter used in Micmac, Mixtex, and Sahaptin. [U+0268, U+0197]

   2009, Theodore Rosendorf, Ellen Lupton, The Typographic Desk Reference, page 75

   Synonyms: i with stroke

2. human sciencesA close central unrounded vowel sound, represented as /ɨ/ in IPA.

   Both the barred i (/i/) and the schwa /ə/ occur frequently but inconsistently throughout American English in weak-stressed positions in running speech as distinct from single words pronounced in isolation.

   1970, Carl A. Lefevre, Linguistics, English, and the language arts, page 96

   1 more example

   As I told you at our last consultation, I am fairly certain that your students' consistent difficulty with the schwa, the schwar, the barred i, the intrusive r, the inversion of velar plosives and some fricatives and affricatives, and their confusion with alveolar plosives—all and more of which difficulties manifest themselves in errors in writing—I say, the difficulty has its basis in the dialect your students are speaking.

   1972 October 6, LaVerne Hanner, A Study of the Effectiveness of Linguistically Oriented Teaching Methods in Correcting Dialectally Derived Errors in the Writing of Black College Students. Final Report., page 35