Re: OT: code-switching

Andreas Johansson wrote:

>Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
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>>On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:38:26PM -0500, David Barrow wrote:
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>>>Mark J. Reed wrote:
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>>>>I suspect that if you, say, went to Spain,
>>>>you would find that when they talk about Canada they don't say ['k&n@d@],
>>>>but rather [kanada].
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>>>[kana'da] more like
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>>Well, if you're going to get nit-picky, it'd actually be [kana'Da]. :)
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>Why not [ka'naDa]? Why the final stress?
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Canada is Canadá  in Spanish it has acute accent because of irregular
stress according to Spanish stress rules.
Why?  Stressed the same way in  French ,  perhaps?

David Barrow

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