For many years, cuers were instructed that the vowel /iēeeiēeeiēee/ when unstressed changes to /ɪĭiɪĭiɪĭi/. This can happen. Unstressed prefixes especially can change /ɪĭiɪĭiɪĭi/ or /əəəəəəəəə/. Consider words like beneath. When the second syllable is stressed, the first syllable is likely to be pronounced as /bbbbbbbbbɪĭiɪĭiɪĭi/.