/ɹ̩/ only is heard after dental/alveolar fricatives and affricates only,/i/ is never heard in this position.
/ə/ and/ɯ/ are typically free variants of each other. When used as a single vowel, it is commonly heard as[ɯ], but when followed by a back vowel/ɯ,u/ it is pronounced as[ə].[8]
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