deaccenting

[Herb Stahlke]

Arnold,

Does the /d/ lax as well?

Herb

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Arnold M. Zwicky
<zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> occasionally we've commented here on the deaccenting of secondarily
> accented syllables in words that  are familiar and frequently used by
> some group of people: the last syllable of "Oregon" for most
> Oregonians, for instance.
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> now i've been hearing an ad on tv for low-dose aspirin in which "low-
> dose" has a deaccented second element, so that it sounds, at first
> hearing, like "lodose", some technical term with the learned suffix "-
> ose".
>
> arnold
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