SOON and EXPERT

[Karlin, Ben]

Even when a parent is ordering a child to SIT it has a bounce which is
different than the reduplication.  I think this is the kind of bounce PROVE
has.  It is, at least to my senses, the way that the EXPERT bounce feels.

Ben Karlin, St. Louis, MO.
Gotta stop typing and go home.  I've just got to.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Gumpert [mailto:egumpert at THORACIC.ORG]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 4:26 PM
> To: SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
> Subject: Re: SOON and EXPERT
>
>
> Does prove always have a little bounce on the end? Or does
> this only occur
> when it is used as a noun (proof); that is, the bounce is part of a
> nominalizing "reduplication" (as in SIT versus CHAIR)?
>
>
> -Eric Gumpert
>