Re: "Double stressed" words
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 29, 2003, 14:39 |
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:47:38AM -0400, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> I can't distinguish the stress in words like 'philosophically'. If I was
> going to mark the stress in it, I would've guessed it as /"fIl@%sOfIkli/
> for no reason other than stress ought to go on the first stressable
> syllable :P . So I would say that certainly my ideolect doesn't
> distinguish between them. I don't know how generalisable this is to my
> dialect as a whole, though.
Interesting. To me, /'fIl@,sOf@kli/ sounds just as odd as, say, emphasizing
the first syllable in "Australia". What about "Administration"?
To me that's /&d,mIn@'strejSn=/.
In both words, the location of the primary stress is very clear, but
I have to stop and think and repeat the word to myself in order to locate
the secondary stress.
-Mark
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