I Scream for Ice Cream

[Dennis R. Preston]

Barbara,

Good point. The "poetic" scanning moves the usual northern ice CREAM stress
pattern to ICE cream and allows the word boundary violation (Ithink).

dInIs (who said ICE cream anyhow)



>dInIs:
>
>You're right, Canadian Raising usually (or often) does cross word boundaries,
>but as I remember the verse, the pronouns have primary stress, so it comes
>out /'ai skrim 'ju skrim wi 'al skrim fr '@iskrim/ (or am I making a retro-
>active memory to justify my comment? I don't really think so!).
>
>Barbara.

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