contrastive stress on "an"

[Mark Mandel]

You can call it "caret" and type it as the ASCII circumflex character, ^,
shift-6 on your keyboard. That's good enough for email.

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On Nov 13, 2007 3:16 PM, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

> It does not sound odd to me: "I don't want a(n) apple, I want THUH apple."
> I'm just not sure whether (or with what frequency) I would say that.
>
> Back in the remote days when I was Archibald Hill's student, we
> represented stressed schwas with the upside-down "V" things (which I don't
> know how to write or name). I haven't seen those in a while.
>
> --Charlie
>
>

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