contrastive stress on "an"

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I think I was taught to call it a wedge, but not by AAHill, who always had great LSA parties featuring Wild Turkey (paid for with his royalties from the "Happy Birthday" song, according to Larry Martin).
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>

Date:         Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:39:12
To:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject:      Re: [ADS-L] contrastive stress on "an"


You can call it "caret" and type it as the ASCII circumflex character, ^,
shift-6 on your keyboard. That's good enough for email.

m a m

On Nov 13, 2007 3:16 PM, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

> It does not sound odd to me: "I don't want a(n) apple, I want THUH apple."
> I'm just not sure whether (or with what frequency) I would say that.
>
> Back in the remote days when I was Archibald Hill's student, we
> represented stressed schwas with the upside-down "V" things (which I don't
> know how to write or name). I haven't seen those in a while.
>
> --Charlie
>
>

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