Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 5, 2002, 12:02 |
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Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
> In general, there are fewer vowel reductions
> and syncopations in AmE as well: "lavatory" has four syllables, only
> the second and fourth of which are schwa.
Eh? I pronounce that ['l&v@,tori], two perfect bimoraic trochees.
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