Fwd: on the possessive front

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

message 3: a brief response from me to singler:

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> From: Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu>
> Date: February 23, 2005 3:23:22 PM PST
> To: john.singler at nyu.edu
> Cc: Philipp Angermeyer <philipp.angermeyer at nyu.edu>, Tommy Grano
> <tgrano at stanford.edu>, Tom Wasow <wasow at csli.stanford.edu>
> Subject: Re: on the possessive front
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2005, at 3:08 PM, you wrote:
>
>> When this came up in my undergraduate socio class a few weeks back,
>> Sonya--one of the TA's--pointed out that there is variation in
>> pronunciation between [gayz] and [gayzIz].
>
> the spoken examples were monosyllabic.  i'd guess that the examples
> written without an apostrophe are too.  no way to tell about the
> examples written with an apostrophe.
>
> arnold
>