Contractions: gonna, wanna, tryinna

[Mai Kuha]

It certainly did sound emphatic to me, but I believe the uncontracted "going
to" accomplished the emphasis by itself, as "just ain't going to" didn't
seem different from the rest of the conversation in terms of prosody or
speed of delivery.

-Mai

on 10/14/03 11:51 AM, J. Eulenberg at eulenbrg at U.WASHINGTON.EDU wrote:

> Was the second "Just ain't going to."  drawn out?  In that case, I would
> expect that the switch to the full phrase was definitely for emphasis, and
> the speaker ought to have been shaking his head at the same time.
>
> Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg <eulenbrg at u.washington.edu>
>
>>> "Ain't gonna happen. Just ain't going to."