-tor again

[Herb Stahlke]

I was surprised at it.  It almost sounded like a constrastive stress
to indicate that the other person's pronunciation was wrong.

Herb

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Randy Alexander
<strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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