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

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.

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