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Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Thursday, September 5, 2002, 12:02
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. ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637

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