-tor again

[Randy Alexander]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:

> During the NCAA semifinals Saturday evening, a coach used the
> pronunciation [kVm'p<h>E*@*R].  The interviewer, responding, said
> [kVm'p<h>E*@'t<h>Or.], with a primary stressed final syllable and an
> aspirated /t/.
>

The Vulcans have landed!
But are you sure it's a *primary* stressed final syllable, as in "come pet a
*tor*"?

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Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China
My Manchu studies blog:
http://www.bjshengr.com/manchu

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