I Scream for Ice Cream

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Dennis Preston wrote
<<Canadian raising does not cross word boundaries?)>>

In the South one is more likely to pronounce

I SCREAM as /a:skriym/
but ICE CREAM as /ayskrim/

because, as you know, word-final /ay/ is more likely to have a reduced
offglide than is /ay/ before a voiceless consonant. So, in that sense
word-boundary is something that off-glide-reduction-inhibition does not
cross. Mayvbe a similar phenomenon is at work in "Canadadian" raising?