Re: CHAT: which's

Muke Tever wrote:
>
>From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
> > >From: Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
> > >Emaelivpaer Muke Tever:
> > > >But I think the restraint against /Ss/ prevents "which is" from ever
> > > >contracting at all.
> >
> > I'd just point out that I don't think of "which's" as [wItSs] - the
>spoken
> > equivalent is something like ['wItS@s]~['wItSIs]. And I guess I ought to
> > voice those [s]'s, but that's not really the issue here.
>
>Well, it's not [Ss], it's just /Ss/, when it arises from morphemes coming
>together in one word - the epenthesis is predictable.
Hm, I must had a fit of very specialized blindness to the difference between
slashes and square brackets.
>
>Your pronunciation is right (tho yeah they should be [z]) which is more
>reason
>why it gets written in full.
Well, after this I likely won't be able not to remember to write it out in
full!

                                                      Andreas

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