1937 emper-or

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Mar 20 19:05:25 UTC 2009


At 3/20/2009 10:37 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>P.S.  I don't mean to suggest that the destressing-cum-schwa reduced
>pronunciation *necessarily* involves reanalysis--we get "Hector" and
>"Nestor" with reduction even in the absence of "hectee" or "nestee".

I am going to adopt "hectee" to refer to the victims.

Joel

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