Re: Metrical Stress, Feet, etc.
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 9, 2004, 15:24 |
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:00:20AM -0800, Philippe Caquant wrote:
> Here you have your syllables back:
> --- An/dre/as Jo/hans/son <and/jo/@/FREE/./F/R> wrote:
> > Years / la/ter, as / I / be/gan / to / de/ve/lop /an
> / in/de/pen/dent / in/te/rest / in / lan/gua/ge,
Not at all! In English, "language" is quite explicitly a two-syllable word,
lan-guage. See http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=language and
note the syllabification of the entry - not in the pronunciation, but in
the headword itself.
Similarly, "realized", "supposed", and "merely" are two syllables,
and "like" is one syllable. However, "pronunciation" is officially
*five* syllables, even if the "ci-a" often conflate into [sjej] or
even [Sej] phonetically.
-Mark
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