-tor again

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:38 PM -0400 4/7/09, Herb Stahlke wrote:
>I was surprised at it.  It almost sounded like a constrastive stress
>to indicate that the other person's pronunciation was wrong.
>
>Herb

Or contrasting it with "competitee".

LH

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>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/.
>>>
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>>  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
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