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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#333399" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>Just for argument’s
sake, how about these? I’m wondering whether sentence-level stress might
play a factor:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#333399" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#333399" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>The Finnish team should
finish in the top three.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#333399" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>The Finnish team would
be grieved to finish last.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#333399" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>Food for thought from
a non-RP speaker…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#333399" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>Kim Blewett<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thanks Patrick for this story. I don't think
though that it's quite so easy to dismiss this guy's claim out of hand.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span class=apple-style-span><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I tried your
experiment today and discovered that there <i><span style='font-style:italic'>is</span></i>
a difference between the pronunciation of "Finnish" and
"finish" in the sentence you offer. The former has more
emphasis on the first syllable, which causes the /i/ to be slightly raised
beyond the /i/ in the latter. Then I tried another sentence:
"To finish in the second half would cause the Finnish team
grief". Again a difference, though this time reversed (ie
"finish" pronounced with raised /i/). Another test:
"To finish last would cause the Finnish team grief": no
difference. It seems to be in the prosodics that the words are sometimes
pronounced differently. And, of course, context is all.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>(Finnish. It's the absolute end! Suomi.
Varmasti on loppu!)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
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