I Scream for Ice Cream

[Dennis R. Preston]

Barbara,

Canadian raising does not cross word boundaries?

dInIs (who was not taught to look both ways before he crossed word
boundaries as a child)

>A saying of my '30s and '40s childhood was "I scream, you scream, we all
>scream for ice cream." But it works better in AE than CE because of the
>Canadian Raising in "ice cream" stressed on the first syllable.
>
>Barbara Harris

Dennis R. Preston
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Michigan State University
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