Re: USAGE: h&ppi? (was: RE: Importance of stress)

At 2:35 pm -0500 23/2/00, John Cowan wrote:
>BP Jonsson wrote:
>
>> Or it may have to do
>> with the fact that the final /I/ is higher and tenser than medial and
>> stressed /I/s, approaching the typical value of /i:/, so that for some
>> speakers the final syllable has more (energetic) stress than for others.
>
>For me, a GA speaker, the last phoneme is unequivocally /i/, so there
>may be other dialects for which this is also true.
Certainly, it's alway been true of me also, a speaker of south east England
origin.  AFAIK it's the most common sound for final /i/.   The pronuciation
/I/ is heard but is IME regarded as rather 'upper class' or affected.

FWIW my /'h&p.pi/ which began this thread was a clumsy attempt to represent
what Philip referred to as 'ambisyllabic' /p/ - no more & no less was
intended.  Whereas south Walian 'hapus' /'happ_his/ is a real   gemmination.

Ray.




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