resyllabification

[Dennis R. Preston]

arnold,

Good point. the aspiration on /k/ clearly disappears in the cluster.

Funny a half-baked southerner like me doesn't have any secondary
stress of the sort you indicate, but, since I delete initial
syllables (where possible), maybe that accounts for it. My favorite
example of this stress versus deletion interplay is 'Indianapolis.'
Southerners go for INduhNAPlus (with stress on the first) but quickly
go for NNNAPlus, with a monosyllabic but trimoraic first part.

dInIs





>On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 04:44 AM, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>
>>It's how you identify real cheeseheads:
>>Us: wis-con-sin
>>Them: wi-scon-sin
>
>yes, of course.  i knew that.  nice example, because this time
>maximizing onsets *eliminates* aspiration.  entirely within a word --
>though my pronunciation of Wisconsin has a secondary accent on the
>first syllable, as if the name were Wiss Consin.  real cheeseheads
>don't have the secondary accent.
>
>arnold

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Dennis R. Preston
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      Asian & African Languages
Michigan State University
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