New Jersey Dialects

[Bethany K. Dumas]

>>the /e/ versions are what you get if you treat the day names as N-N
>compounds, with primary accent on the first element and secondary
>accent on the second.
>
>but frequent and opaque compounds are always open for accent reduction.
>  unfortunately, word-final unaccented /e/ is not something english
>does, so if you're going to have an unaccented syllable, you shift the
>vowel up to /i/.
>
>i believe that a respectable number of speakers have restored secondary
>accent to the second element while keeping the vowel /i/.

Why is that <unfortunate>, arnold?

Bethany