Re: YAEPT alert! [Re: Not phonetic but ___???]

John Cowan said:

> AFM idiolect, I have /Sur\/ 'sure' but /S\r=li/ 'surely'.  Go figure.
> There is also the story about mishearing the hymn "Surely the Cross I'd
> bear" as "Shirley, the cross-eyed bear."
Interesting pair, that, since native speakers would probably _not_ confuse
them in speech (as opposed to lyrics). The "beat" of sentence timing in
English is phrase-based, and both of these examples have three timing
units -- but /aid/ gets assigned to the third unit in the first example
and to the middle one in the second example:

Surely -- the Cross -- I'd bear
Shirley -- the cross-eyed -- bear


-- Mark