deaccenting

[Herb Stahlke]

Arnold,

That's what I would have expected, but I've been hearing NBC
announcers at Olympic swimming events pronouncing "Speedo" without
tapping the /d/.

Herb

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Arnold M. Zwicky
<zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Aug 22, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Herb Stahlke wrote:
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>> Arnold,
>>
>> Does the /d/ lax as well?
>>
>> Herb
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Arnold M. Zwicky
>> <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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>>> occasionally we've commented here on the deaccenting of secondarily
>>> accented syllables in words that  are familiar and frequently used by
>>> some group of people: the last syllable of "Oregon" for most
>>> Oregonians, for instance.
>>>
>>> now i've been hearing an ad on tv for low-dose aspirin in which "low-
>>> dose" has a deaccented second element, so that it sounds, at first
>>> hearing, like "lodose", some technical term with the learned suffix
>>> "-
>>> ose".
>
> i just heard it again (the ad is for Bayer aspirin), and yes, of
> course, the d is laxed; that follows from the deaccenting of the
> second syllable.  in general, when you have deaccenting, you get all
> the automatic consequences of the new prosody.
>
> arnold
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