LaGuardia, La Bomba, cabana

[Randy Alexander]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:55 AM,  <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 2/9/09 11:09:28 AM, RonButters at AOL.COM writes:
>> some speakers might well have some
>> > accent on the first syllable of LaGuardia (as i do in Lafayette)
>
> I should have added that Lafayette is normally a three-syllable word that
> gets stressed on the final syllable, which seems to induce secondary stress on
> the first syllable, thus inhibiting schwa reduction. Cf. "lemonADE" "Lana JO"
> vs. "Verona" "farina" (with schwa-reduction in first syllable).

No "=20"!  :)

Is there any set of rules for schwa reduction in multisyllable words
that is as simple as possible but also reasonably complete floating
around online somewhere?

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Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China
My Manchu studies blog:
http://www.bjshengr.com/manchu

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