Re: CHAT: Importance of stress

Matt Pearson wrote:
> And anyway,
> if the /p/ were entirely syllable-final, then it would be unreleased,
> as it is in "capture", and for me it's definitely not unreleased.
Interesting.  It definitely IS unreleased for me.  In fact, I suspect
that there's a momentary voicing before the /i/ starts.

> For other speakers (like you, I would
> suppose), one constraint ranks more highly than the other, and
> so there's no impression of ambisyllabicity.
Hmm, reasonable enough assumption.

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